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To: Tony Viola who wrote (43861)	12/22/1998 10:07:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) of 1573936

Tony - Re: ""High-end Unix systems can do things that Intel architecture/Windows NT can't do yet, or certainly not in the same degree, he said." ISD Magazine has done a detailed analysis of Intel based workstations running Windows NT and Unix vs. Sun Solaris workstations. DUAL CPU systems were used as were single CPU systems (Intel & SUN/Sparc). isdmag.com In the testing that they did - limited to some extent by the software that runs on NT - Intel-based workstations outperformed SUN systems. The Intel based machines were 400 and 450m MHz Pentium II's/Xeons and the fastest available SUN machine was a 360 MHz UltraSparc IIi. Conclusion: The Intel HARDWARE IS SUPERIOR - It's the software that limits Intel-based workstation capability. Note - many of the tests were not heavily FPU intensive, helping Intel based systems to easily outperform the SPARC machines. Paul

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