On Sun, 29 Sep 1996 sthaug @
nethelp .
no wrote:
> [Adam Safier <asafier @
csc .
com>]
>
> | Rummor has it that a Pentium 200 running SOLARI x86 2.5.1 will outperform
> | a SPARCStation 5. But a SPARCStation 5 can have 9 ethernet interfaces
> | (motherboard + 2 quad cards) while a Pentium usually has a limited number
> | of free slots. (I know about specialty motherboards but am trying to
> | stick to a "common" platform.)
This amazes you? I/O on sparcs is not that great. Our main server a P-100
with 64 Megs of ram and FreeBSD can put our totally unused just sits there
SS20 with 128 megs of ram to shame. For I/O, and memory writes. Im not
saying sparcs are trash just that there not as whoopy as one would think.
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