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To: Mephisto who wrote (15793)	4/28/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (3) of 64865

>> My husband tells me his projects require powerful, high-end >> UNIX machines. Moreover, he said that he would never replace a >> UNIX, high-end work-station with a NT/Intel PC because the PC >> is too slow Your husband is obviously living in the past. Intel has 550MHZ chips out right now vs. UNIX market struggling around 350MHZ mark. Your basic $200 PC graphics card does 6 million triangles/second. If you want more power there is a whole host of very high end graphics cards for the PC. SGI has switched to an x86 arhitecture running NT; currently their 540 station. Like I said there is no room for proprietary iron on the desktop anymore.

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