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To: Tony Viola who wrote (43861)	12/22/1998 4:25:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

Tony, I wonder where Scumbria is with his NT is only good for email, Office 98 and file server applications, stuff like that? NT causes daily headaches for me, today being no exception. I am hopeful that NT 5.0 will smooth over some of the problems I'm fighting with. Scumbria

To: Tony Viola who wrote (43861)	12/22/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573857

Re: "The trend is absolutely that Intel architecture/Windows NT will be the dominant player over time" Good thing the K6-3 runs NT faster than the PII/Katmai! anandtech.com <GG> Kevin

To: Tony Viola who wrote (43861)	12/22/1998 10:07:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

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