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Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? [message #4036 is a reply to message #3970]

Tue, 18 April 1995 00:00

Fergus Gallagher
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Registered: January 1995

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I have recently taken delivery of a new SPARCstation 20, primarily for
running IDL applications. I was a bit dismayed to see that my TIME_TEST
benchmark was about 17.5 secs.

Earlier entries in this thread have shown pentiums running better than
this (15 secs, if I recall)

Have I wasted my money? Or is TIME_TEST not a good measure. Obviously,
my SPARCstation has more memory (64Mb + 64Mb virtual) but I could have
bought this amount on memory for a pentium and still saved enough for a
jolly to Bali.....in fact, I need a PC too, for running WP apps amd the
like (no WABI comments, please), so I estimate I could have saved about
=A38k ($12k)

As I am "sole user" on my system, configuration issues aren't really a
problem.

Comments, anyone?

Fergus

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		Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: smithjp on Wed, 12 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: sterner on Thu, 20 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: velt on Wed, 19 April 1995 00:00
		RE: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: mallozzi on Tue, 18 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: Fergus Gallagher on Tue, 18 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: gurman on Mon, 17 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: ps on Sat, 15 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: kid on Fri, 14 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: ps on Mon, 24 April 1995 00:00

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