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Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? [message #3958 is a reply to message #3953]

Fri, 14 April 1995 00:00

Chris Jacobsen
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Registered: December 1994

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The CPU in a pentium is within hailing distance of the CPU of new
unix workstations. If that's the only issue, a PC is a good platform
for IDL in terms of bang for the buck.

For me, a big issue is memory. For image processing,
we will frequently end up with several 1024x1024 complex floating
point arrays at 8 MB memory each. We can afford to have one $10,000
unix workstation with 128 or even 256 MB of memory and a half-dozen
X terminals so that one or two people can do image processing at any
moment. We cannot afford to put 128 MB of memory in each of half a
dozen PCs. Also, nobody ever screws up AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
on the unix workstation...

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		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: foresto on Fri, 14 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: kennealy on Fri, 14 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: daft on Fri, 14 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: Chris Jacobsen on Fri, 14 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: ebstein on Thu, 13 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: bowman on Wed, 12 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: kennealy on Sat, 15 April 1995 00:00

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