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To: Stormweaver who wrote (16077)	5/2/1999 5:04:00 PM
From: Eric.sun	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

James, I disagreed with your dead iron theory to Sun machine, while NT and Linux maybe getting more popular in corporate world, sparc/solaris is still the primary choice for most engineering applications. The floating point performance on the ultra series can not be matched with any pentium_III therefore in compute intensive application, NT is no use. Besides the hardware performance, there is no much compute intensive software package available on NT platform anyhow. Just like in productivity software area, MS is unbeatable. In high end EDA or CAD/CAM application, unix still is the king. The RAS on solaris and the 64_bit nature of sparc architecture is simply better than any wintel platform available. Regard, Eric