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To: Stormweaver who wrote (15814)	4/28/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

I just wish I could sell my PC iron; it's virtually worthless. SGI is so good at seeing the trend that they sold the Starfire to Sun. ;) JMHO.

To: Stormweaver who wrote (15814)	4/28/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: Esvida	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

> SGI sees the trend. They know the UNIX workstation is dead. They've >seen this first because 80% of their business was high-end graphic >UNIX workstations. The above comment is the most wickedly humorous one I've run into in several years at least. I'm not sure if the humor was intended. SGI does not see a trend until just about the time the trend becomes so thick as a brick and hit them on the head. Had they seen the trend, they would have owned the graphic market up and down the food chain. I hope that their spinoff of MIPS will be successful and that someone like Compaq will absorb them soon. (My humble attempt at humor :)

To: Stormweaver who wrote (15814)	4/28/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: Nolan Toone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

James my boy, you're fighting so hard you're swing real wild now. 1. You cannot use clock speed to compare one arch. to another. The sparc arch. performs up too 3 instructions per clock cycle compared to intel's 1. That is why they are "struggling" with 350 Mhz. But lets do a little math: IF that "up too 3" averages out to be only 2 that's equiv. to 700Mhz of intels. 2. You mention Solaris 2.5? That OS is 5+ years old! Lets compare that to M$ at that time... Win3.1?? On my system here I have both Win98 & Solaris 7. I don't see any difference in time between Scandisk and fsck, all I know is that Scandisk has HAD to run on the Win98 about 30-40 times in the last few months because of window crashes vs. 0 times for Solaris. So which is faster?????