21 Apr
2002
21 Apr
'02
1:26 p.m.
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote:
Not comparing them to today's Windows machines
but to the PC
offerings out during the same timeframe, I doubt you really could've
found a PC comparable in capabilities to Unix workstations such as the
SGI machines, for running applications such as Lightwave 3D, or the
NeXT machines, for such things as Mathmatica and other scientific-type
apps. The hardware on PC's has only in the last few years caught up
to the various workstations in video capabilities and the CPU's have
yet to come near the MIPS and DEC Alpha processors except in terms of
raw clockspeed. Of course, you paid for machines of this level, but
you got a lot more as well.
Raw clockspeed? Irrelevant. Get yourself an RS/6000. My RS/6000 397 at
160 MHz soundly trounces my 850 MHz PC.
Peace... Sridhar