From: a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh) Subject: Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 04:22:46 GMT
In article <287mh0$9ql@tamsun.tamu.edu> t0e0078@tamsun.tamu.edu (Terje Eggestad) writes:
>I fail to see the purpose, or the sanity of this argument.
>How can you compare hardware to software??
>
>This is like arguing about how this VCR tape compares to that VCR
>ot how the Cosby show compares to my TV!
>
>Let me explore the posibilities here a little bit.
>My 386/25 with no cache and 8 Meg of DRAM will run rings around
>a SUN IPC if I put 1meg of DRAM into it (yes I do think it still would run).
>
>However An 486DX2/66, with external cache, localbus accelerated SVGA
>card, 32 bit EISA or VESA bus, and SCSI drives, with the same amount
>DRAM running linux will probably run rings around an IPC.
>
>Terje
As the original person who started this thread I must say that my intentions
were to elaborate in the artical itself and not the subject header. As far
as a general comparison between the two, I think it is perfectly valid since
we are talking about systems that can potentially run the same ported software
, applications that can be directly compared because they are identical at the
source level. Not only can this comparison be kind of objective but helpful.
The SUN IPC costs many times more than a typical Linux system. That is even
if you took a 'Maxed Out' PC and put Linux on it you could give the IPC a run
for its money.
P.S. I am sorry about your computer, time to upgrade rather than get angry.
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