Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (1457)	4/15/1999 9:07:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

What do you call competitively priced? The SPARC 20's were 20K and would just about break even with a 90 MHZ Pentium running Linux. thass truth Br'er. Now their latest incarnation may break the sound barrier but waddabout price, really. Aren't we talking over 10K US to be a member? Maybe at one time, that was the case. Nowadays, a PCI Ultra IIi (Ultra 10) can be had for ~$3,000. I've seen real world comparisons between the Ultras and PIIs. I'm looking forward to getting a low end Ultra in place of a Pentium as my next 'PC'. Sun tunes their systems differently. They don't emphasize clock speeds. In place of clock speed, they have better throughput. -JCJ