14 Nov
2000
14 Nov
'00
11:07 a.m.
Pentium III,
hell the K6-2/450 here with Solaris 8 beat the
UltraSparc10 (300MHZ)... (gcc compile and build of an object over NFS with
the same server).
Amazing that my home toy outperforms the work box.
Both had IDE drives and 128mb memory.
(Personally, I prefer FreeBSD on the K6... but that wasn't what I was
testing in the benchmark)...
Bill
Now, you want the really scarry part? Price what it would cost you to get a
nice SparcStation 20 (5 year old system) with say 1 SM71 CPU, 128MB RAM, 4GB
HD, and 8-Bit graphics. Then price what you can get if you go buy *new* PC
hardware that will run Solaris! Shoot, just price a nice SS20 on eBay then
the PC hardware at your local shop, even that can be scarry!
Zane