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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (637)7/9/1996 1:09:00 PM
From: Terje Oseberg   of 1585826
 
Multi processing.

I agree, pricing is a problem.
Also, I don't agree with the way
Intel and Micorsoft have done their
part. Basically it sucks. I would much
rather run Linux in a multi processor
PC and get a real operating system that
works. We have several NT systems here,
and they crash and have all kinds of problems.
Where I worked 5 years ago there was an old
SGI system runing their version of Unix which
had 4 processors, and was capable of handling
up to 8. It was typically used by 10-20 people
all the time, and they were all fooling around
writing programs to bring the system to its
knees. The system only crashed once a week.
Our NT system gets used once a week, and crashed
TWICE A WEEK. I guess you get what you pay for.
AND if you want to call Microcrap for support,
you have to call a 900 #. This is crazy. Have
you ever tried to get support from them, or
Intel. It used to be that if you called Intel
with design questions, they would send you free
chips to try. Now you have to pay $50 for an
8086 if you only want 2. Shouldn't those things
cost $2 by now? And their multi processor designs
suck. Do they work? Well, you can use one processor
for each program. The PC is way behind because
multi processor systems available cost too much,
and have problems.

Terje
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