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From: bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org (Leo Bicknell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 1 Sep 1995 10:47:56 -0400
Organization: The bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701D.
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In article <42712r$lp6@reason.cdrom.com>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>come anywhere close to its current or projected market share. Yes, the PowerPC
>looks nice and I'd certainly like an ALPHA on my desk, but the smart money
>still says look to the P6 if you're looking for performance and the largest
>array of external options. We certainly didn't back Intel because we liked the
>instruction set! :-)
I'd like to mention that DEC Alphas are faster then the
P6 will ever be, in fact they make it look like a Z80. More
importantly, many of the alpha models take standard, off the shelf
PCI cards, which means there are many options, and they are
relatively inexpensive (at least in the workstation class of
computing).
Intel's dominance has been fueled by Microsoft, and now
everyone has in ingrained that if you want to buy a computer
you buy a <fill in latest intel processor> with <fill in latest
microsoft windows offering>. Some people then realize Windows95
is Mac89, and look for something better, and turn to Unix. They
still have this 'PC good, other bad, Oog by PC' mentality.
I don't mean to bash PC's. I have one, and use several
at work (With everything from Winblows to NetBSD to FreeBSD).
I just really laugh at the people who are trying to use PC's
to do things they plain aren't capable of, pour thousands of
dollars into them to try and make them do what they want, and
the whole time insist workstations are too expensive.
*Rant mode off*. So anyway, use the right tool for the
job. A PC running {Free,Net}BSD makes a fairly capable server
for just about anything, provided it doesn't have to serve a
lot of machines. Linux makes a great end user machine
(who can argue with doom? :-), but doesn't fair so well as a
server. Use a workstation when you need to support 100
users at a time, or NFS serve 200 machines, that's what they
were desgined for, and they leave PC's in the dust in that
area.
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