begin quoting John Oliver as of Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:34:53PM -0800: > 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.
Doesn't the Enterprise have superior I/O? Don't know about apples-to-apples comparison, but it seems that the Sun boxen I've played with degrade more gracefully under load than the Intel boxen. Then again, it being Fry's, you'd have to stand in line to return it what, three times out of five? :) > So, then, you'd be willing to sell that Sun for, say, $250? :-D Hey! I'll get in line for that! -Stewart "I shoulda had 3-phase put in the computer room..." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
