John Oliver wrote:
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:23:24PM -0800, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
That being said, why would you even want to mess with an older
workstation? I've got a Sun Enterprise 4000 system here that
cost over $70,000, has 4-GB of ram and eight SPARC processors.
I can go down to Fry's and buy a AMD powered desktop Pea Sea
for about $500 that will run rings around the Sun.
So, then, you'd be willing to sell that Sun for, say, $250? :-D
Har! It's worth more than that just as scrap metal! About the
only thing going for it at this time is that it runs Sun FORTRAN.
When the box finally croaks I'm going to replace it with a dual
Opteron system sitting here ready to go at a moment's notice. We
haven't paid for Sun hardware maintenance for many years and
it's just a matter of time...
BTW, the Opteron is about 10-times faster on a single job than
the SPARC, which is vintage 1996.
Regards,
Lew
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