24 Oct
1999
24 Oct
'99
6:32 p.m.
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Mike Cheponis wrote:
What are the current models? What are the current specs?
What new models are being designed? When will they be released?
That's fascinating. Take obsolete hardware
and architecture (vax), and
keep them running! I guess I will never cease to be amazed at the weird
Obsolete hardware? Are you aware that they're still being made? Systems
based on CURRENT technology, using CURRENT production techniques.
Keep in mind that the VAX isn't a computer...it's an architecture. There are
old implementations and new ones. Now, you say "obsolete architecture"...Do
you honestly believe that PCs are
"new" computers? That architecture was designed in 1980. And it wasn't
designed to be scalable. The VAX was designed only a couple of years earlier,
and it *was* designed to be scalable. That's why they're still around, still
in demand, still working hard in the face of constant marketing lies by Intel
and Microsoft.
Ahh, 32 bits is obsolete today. In case you hadn't noticed, even DEC figured
that out, and did the Alpha.
FACT: VAX is at end of life.
What you failed
to mention is that sgi is -only- selling NT these days,
Wrong. having given up
on Big Iron. Also, the market sizes for IBM, HP, and Sun's
"big iron" exist specifically to be those back-room servers that can do lots
of disk I/Os per second (the web, eh?).
...the back-room servers that you insist are obsolete, you mean? BUT, I would
like the Vax Lover Crowd to acknowledge that they integer
performance of their machine is pathetic.
Old vaxen are slow. New vaxen are fast. C'mon, man. You're comparing
apples and oranges. Compare a current vax to a current PC.
I sure would like the PC lover crowd to admit to themselves that the PeeCee
isn't the end-all-be-all of computing. It's a cheap, slow, nonscalable, poorly
designed architecture that some little ass-kisser fresh out of college came up
with to impress his boss at IBM. GET OVER IT.
Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me! In case you hadn't noticed, there are more PCs than
every other type of computer ever made, ever! Did you notice this?
FACT: And it wasn't designed by some little ass-kisser fresh out of college; it
was designed by Intel.
-Dave McGuire
-mac
p.s. Is it common on this group for people to ignore the FACTS? Do FACTS
matter, or is this a group where there are opinions and commonly-shared
versions of reality, where facts are unimportant?