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To: John M. Zulauf who wrote (4908)	5/21/1998 1:27:00 PM
From: Marcelo Magnasco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Hi John, you say: Remember that any Intel based product release this year will by necessity 32bit. Any hope of compatibility with your 64bit O2000's is thus negated. I don't run -64 executables most of the time. I run -n32, which runs on the O2s as well. Irix6.3 on the O2 is a 32 bit OS, isn't it? (yes, the R5K is a 64 bit chip, but the OS itself is 32-bit-mode, or not?). Look's like you're not being abandoned -- and if you're very price conscious the Linux Pentium II's make fine X terminals, or you can "CAD Duo" the Octane for two local users. Let me be clear: I pay for them with your money. Do you want me to be very price conscious or not? If not, feel free to write to your congressman about the NSF budget. In any case, typical small scale simulations here run about half as fast on a 1.5K$ PentiumII box as in a 5K$ O2. Half as fast for one-third the money. Then they run three times faster on an Octane than in the O2, but then again it's four times the money. So they are not just fine X terminals: they run our stuff at a sixth of the speed of an octane for 1/12th the money. WRT to buying a large cluster of PII boxen, I agree it's inconvenient, noisy, and can be very slow on some problems. And the HEAT, God! the heat!!! But three years ago I would not dream of it, and now it's becoming a definitely attractive possibility, and in one year... Marcelo