Re: Karl D likes to flame Sun (You bet I do ;-)

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From: Karl Denninger
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 11:23

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In article <+GGM_CVAZ@linac.fnal.gov> crawdad@fncent (Matt Crawford) writes:
>Karl Denninger:
>>
>> ... 4/630 MPs (does anyone other than me think those extra 
>> processors are a joke until Solaris 2.1 is working well enough to move 
>> to?)
>
>Probably, but not everyone thinks so.  Back at U of C, I replaced a
>3/280 with a 4-cpu 4/690 and it got great use of all 4.  The load was
>multiuser and compute-heavy, not syscall-heavy.

In that situation they work very well.

Unfortunately that's not the normal mix in a business environment.  
Yet Sun sells these machines as business servers.

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Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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