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In article <4d4tuo$o4s@atheria.europa.com>, pb@europa.com (Peat Blackthorne) writes:

|> 	The 80x86 UNIX (ala FreeBSD, Linux, etc.) workstation market might
|> actualy have a chance in the mid-ranged systems market now that the
|> PP is around.  Before, if you wanted power, you got a SPARC, Alpha,
|> or MIPS.  Now we've got another option.

The BeBox comes to mind.

|> Of course, there are the UNIXes for the 68k chips.

SunOS 1, SunOS 2, and SunOS3 come to mind.

|> 	And, of course, if you really wanted the power, you'd forget 
|> Intel and Motorola, and buy yourself an R10k, or an UltraSPARC.  ;)

Or a PowerPC 604.  Check out the Jan '96 Byte.  BYTEmark Tests (higher
is better; Model, processor, and then two scores listed, integer, then
floating point.)  I've sorted in order of integer performance

DeskStation Raptor 3
266 MHz Alpha 21164
   3.75, 4.49

IBM Personal Computer Power Series 850
133 MHz PowerPC 604
   2.90, 2.92

Sun Ultra I Creator3D Model 170E 
167 MHz UltraSparc
   2.16, 1.54

Intel Reference System
150 MHz P6 (Pentium Pro)
   2.10, 2.60

Netpower Fastseries MP
200 MHz Mips R4400
   2.03, 2.08

Chris
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Chris Wood    christw@lexis-nexis.com   ChrisCWood@eworld.com