From: khockenbury@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 23:53:46 GMT
In article <willmore.736051908@help.cc.iastate.edu>, willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes:
> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>
> Linux doesn't run on a 200Mhz Alpha or an HP 705. Do you think that any
> Linux system runs faster than either of those two machines? It's nice,
> but linux is far from as full blown a Unix as many of the current production
> Unixes. For example: How much memory can a Linux system support?
Theoretically, 1GB. :-)
> How much swap?
256 MB.
> How many ttys?
64.
> How fast is the X performance?
100K+ xstones. (XS3)
> How stable is the X server?
Enough that I haven't had problems. :-)
> Does it have a good fortran? (ok, no fortran jokes)
Well, *good* I dunno. We've got f2c, and the guy working on GNU fortran
(g77) is using a linux machine.
> Pascal?
p2c is about it for the moment. But who wants to write in pascal, anyhow? :)
> Lisp?
CLISP
> Can you buy Arc/Info for it?
What is it?
> Any other comercial package?
Motif should be coming soon, and I believe Waffle is available.
I will admit to wanting an alpha, too, though. :^)