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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!mr.net!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet From: fastbit@earthlink.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 00:06:22 -0800 Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <331E7AFE.54DC@earthlink.net> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5fhkv5$8vj$1@halcyon.com> <5fhugj$4q2@paperboy.ids.net> <331CE677.46F5@net5.net> <331CC20C.4542@fbp-ny.com> <5fj37m$oeb$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cust55.max15.san-francisco2.ca.ms.uu.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.sco.misc:36115 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36648 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6226 comp.sys.sgi.misc:28895 Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > Nope. PentiumPRO-200 with 512 cache, lots of RAM and disks, decent > video will cost you 6-8K$ at most. Add $200 dollars for a commercial > OpenGL X-server from XInside (no hardware OpenGL acceleretion) and > you are in bussiness. You can not even get O2 with R5000 for this > kind of money, and they are slower -- you need a much pricier 10000s > to match... > > My claim is based on comparision between the said PPro box runing > FreeBSD and old R4400 SGI workstation, which has 5 times more memory > (I aproximate the speed of newer O2s to the best of my knowledge). > TCL (compiled with ``-O2 -mips2'' flags is 2-2.5 times slower on > our scripts). > Oh, yeah ? Instead of "approximating", have you actually tried the O2 for a spin ? The O2 with 128MB simply FLIES; there is no comparison with 200Mhz PPro boxes, not even dual 200Mhz PPro boxes. The speed with which you can do texturing and VRML stuff is simply amazing for that kind of low-end box. You can get a standard issue O2 with 64Mb mem, 2GB disk for around $6K, spend about $800 for 64MB more memory; another $1200 for a fast 4GB drive and so for around $8K you have a hell of a machine that will beat the s**t out any $15K PPro box.