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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet From: miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx (Miguel de Icaza) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 07 Apr 1996 16:54:41 -0600 Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Lines: 13 Message-ID: <s8hguvwspa.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> References: <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <stephenkDp7nHo.369@netcom.com> <4jrhth$66a@hoopoe.psc.edu> <4jve3t$cfe@hermes.synopsys.com> <4k0m0f$68j@hoopoe.psc.edu> <4k0r5l$g2@siberia.gtri.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hill.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: September Gnus v0.43/Emacs 19.30 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14188 comp.os.linux.development.system:20740 comp.os.linux.x:28646 comp.os.linux.hardware:35524 comp.os.linux.setup:49142 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:466 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3012 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2773 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16697 > In particular, with currently reasonable [academic] prices on Solaris for > x86 processors, it would be very interesting to compare the Sun product > with Linux. Especially since the early tenor of this thread seemed to > suggest that Linux basic quality was at the "toy" level. At least Linux on the Sparc outperforms both SunOS and Solaris (this is from Larry McVoy's lmbench program). Miguel. -- miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx Linux/SPARC project: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/sparclinux.html