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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: 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: 30 Mar 1997 23:59:35 -0800
Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
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References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5hhv1k$jh9@fido.asd.sgi.com> <333E3530.794B@sgi01.grn.aera.com> <5hmtuf$dio@fido.asd.sgi.com>
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:In article <5hmtuf$dio@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
:Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
:>Lee Ward (lee@sgi01.grn.aera.com) wrote:
:>: Larry McVoy wrote:
:>
:>: So, what you are saying is that $130,000 isn't in the "hundreds"? Since
:>: you don't seem to take a hint well, I'll say it plainly: you are
:>: comparing a one-hundred thousand dollar machine to a 20,000 dollar
:>: machine. You are using figures from that 100,000 dollar machine to argue
:>: that someone should buy it or a cousin as a news server? Why?
:>
:>I'm not saying anything of the sort. This topic has wander far away from
:>the news server discussion. If you go back and look, there were numerous
:>places where Matt & Co suggested that SGI's couldn't do anything right.
:>Especially in the area of file systems. I simply pointed out that there
:>are things that SGI's do right, in fact better than anyone else.
:>
:>: My point is that you appear to dismiss anything that couldn't justify
:>: the cost of an SGI.
:>
:>Not true. Wander backward through my posts and you'll see that I said that
:>there are lots of places where an SGI isn't worth it. I use a PC at home.
:>I can't afford an SGI to read news and send mail on. Wouldn't ask anyone
:>else to do so either. Nothing special about the SGI, by the way. The
:>same statement is true for Sun/DEC/etc.
:>--
:>---
:>Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804
Close enough. This sems to be a good stopping point.
-Matt