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To: cfimx who wrote (7414)	1/29/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: Pierre Aydin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

As usual twister is twisting the story, I did not say workstation could only be UNIX, how can you compare something that you don't have and you don't sell. It's just a PR, they could have compared UNIX only and also NT with DEC, IBM, CPQ or other company that sells NT worksations. Anyway, I don't want to argue with you, only time will show and I think HWP is getting little concern about SUN. Did you look at the latest ads from HWP about UNIX in WSJ, where were they until now? Pierre

To: cfimx who wrote (7414)	1/29/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: William T. Katz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

From personal experience developing for both HP Unix workstations and high-end NT Alpha/Pentium-based "workstations", I can say that the NT faction should definitely be considered workstations from the perspective of (1) speed, (2) storage capacity, (3) reliability, (4) RAM limits. If I had to program a number-crunching application, I'd take an Alpha over a Sun workstation (at any set price). Note that most 3D graphics professionals are now moving towards NT platform (accelerating SGI demise).

To: cfimx who wrote (7414)	1/29/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: C. Zuck	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Twister, I am an aerospace engineer. I am writing this on a Sun Ultra 1. I have four desktops open. I am running Netscape on one, Interleaf on another, as well as a mainframe terminal window, several utilities (mail, phone list, file manager, several command tools), a proprietary analytical Fortran code, and Excel. All are open and active. Because I am not using much of the cpu, there is a CFD (computational fluid dynamics, intense number crunching) job from another user executing in background. It has never crashed in the two years I have had it, and the only times I have re-booted have been to kill other people's jobs, which I could not get rid of otherwise. An NT box will not do all of these things. An NT box is not a workstation, in my book. I've used NT, and it's no UNIX ;) Chris