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In article <31699471.5C0@noran.com>, Dave Greunke  <vid@noran.com> wrote:

>So, lets see what you're saying here.... A 100 MHz+ Pentium is faster
>than a 66 Mhz Sparc.... Wow what an incredible revelation.
[rest of hate-flame snipped]

I am sorry if I offended you with my observations.  I completely
disagreed with a comment that someone posted, so I offered my
perspective, based on real life experience with many different
workstations.

Here is some extra information a nice person sent me if you need more info
to be convinced that the P5-P6 PCs are workstation class machines :

[sender's name snipped intentionally]
>to provide some real world program experiences (under linux):
>
>IBM RS/6000-590         44 secs         95 secs
>DEC 21064A-275          33 secs         --
>P6-200                  20 secs         50 secs
>
>heavy floating point (crystallographic least squares of protein structures,
>the kind of stuff pharmaceutical companies do in drug development - I work
>for a chemical company in that sector).
>
>The P6-200 has a modest 64 MB memory and 5.5 GB disk (we have a total of
>around 20 GB on all our P5/P6 systems, and none except for an old P5-60,
>has less than 32 MB memory - all of course run exclusively linux)

Assuming the P5 is around 1/2 as fast as the P6 machine, we see the PC
is a workstation class machine, and linux is getting very close to
a professional workstation-quality OS; not to mention the fact that
many commercial unices are also available.  I believe the P6 is commonly
regarded as a workstation killer, and MMX will only strengthen its position.

Your snide observation about clock frequency is incorrect.  Tell me if a
100Mhz 486 will outrun the Sparc 20-66 or a 100MHz P5.

Have a nice day.

-Troy

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