28 Sep
2012
28 Sep
'12
2:17 p.m.
On 09/27/2012 02:49 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
I thought this was flame war and advocacy, and "fair" had gone out of
the window...
Hardly.
Sadly Solaris seems to have the same problem. I have a
Sun Ultra-60
which once seemed like a nice box. Sadly it no longer is. It takes
around 30 minutes to build the Hercules emulator.
The current Windows/7 box will build Hercules mainframe emulator (32 and
64-bit binaries) in under a minute. Whilst I like the U-60 I think its
un-usable....
Comparing current machines with fifteen-year-old machines is far
from
fair, but...What's the config of the U60? ... but I didn't realize it was 15 years old.
Actually 13, introduced in 1999.
I think it only has 600 MB of RAM, but its a dual 450
with a 15k disk
from an IBM server and of course Hercules won't compile with Sun Studio..
I got it compiled with Sun Studio a couple of years ago. But either
way, GCC is well known to have performance issues, especially on that
platform. Also either way, the RAM is your limitation there. Solaris
is not a small, lightweight desktop OS.
.. I keep it because its sometimes more nostalgic nice
to have a slow
mainframe. To be fair the PC I use is a 4-core 23Ghz i5 with 12 gb of
RAM so its pretty slick.
Yes. It only took Intel twenty years to get serious about it, but
they finally figured out how to get decent performance out of their
archaic architecture. I have an i7 here, and I'm impressed by its
performance. That's saying something, as I have NEVER before this been
impressed with the performance of any x86-family processor, all the way
back to the 8086. It still doesn't come anywhere near the performance
of some of the big Suns here, but then I don't want an 1100lb rack as my
desktop machine, either. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA