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In article <4k6545$i2c@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> Troy Beukema,
tjb@watson.ibm.com writes:
>I disagree with the both of you.  I know, from experience, that
>a P5-100+ under Linux will outrun a Sparc-20 66/SunOS, and keep up with
>RS-6000/AIX boxes fairly well.  I have read the P6-200 is in the class
>of the Ultra Sparc.  You can plunk 128Mbytes of memory in the
>things.  You can have 10Gbytes of disk storage if you want.  Most
>of the key components, such as HD & memory, are the same as those
>used in high end workstations.  All I see in a high end workstation
>is better packaging, for a LOT more money.  Buy 3 PCs for the cost
>of one workstation, and just throw the PC away when it breaks, you'd
>still be ahead.
>

My experience has been that Sun's are generally slow. RS/6000's are very
fast. We had 66Mhz 601 250's with no L2 cache that outperformed P5/100's
(prior to EDO RAM and SB Cache). The 80Mhz 601 and 604 boxes generally
outperform our p5/120 Gateway's. There is no contest with the Power2
machines.

Also, I simply _like_ the RS/6000's. For our mission critical uses, PC's
just were not stable enough and lacked the vendor support of the high-end
boxes. When the 6000's rarely broke down, they were fixed within less
than 24hrs. In a 24x7 shop that was VERY important.

WT