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In article <SCHLI.92Aug7133548@alaspin.cs.tu-berlin.de> schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder) writes:

   nmouawad@waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes:

   > rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley) writes:
   > 
   >    Erik Plesner (ep) writes:
   > 
   >    ep> o Runs out of space when documents reaches a reasonable size.
   > 
   >    What a combination, DOS memory brain damage and TeX memory brain
   >    damage at one and the same time :-).
   > 
   > Another option would be to switch to Os/2.
   > Consider the following configuration:
   > 
   > 32megs of ram expandable to 64, with IEsa bus.
   > 80486 running at 50 Mhz
   > 1.2 giga-bytes hard-drive with under 10 musecs access/seek time
   > Ati Ultra with 1meg on board sram, plus crystal fonts technology to
   > produce on the fly scallable fonts as small or as big as necessary.
   > 15inch Multisynch non-interlaced 1024x780x256 colors.
   > 
   > What's wrong with such a configuration ? [...]
   > Pc's aren't bad. Looking at them at certain angles is.

	   Ok, I'll tell you, what's wrong with such a configuration: I'd
	   get two Sparc2 Suns for the same price you paid for your
	   box!!!

	   Amazed...

	   ...Wolfram




Hum... let me see, are you sure your sparc stations are equiped with
the same disk storage capacity ? the same amout of ram ? What about
their screen resolution ? I suspect that a sparc station has a
graphics engine on-board that can produce fonts on the fly...

Can I upgrad the sparc station the way I'doit with a pc say to an 80586
running at 100 mhz ? (due next year ?).

Sparcs are nice, no disagreement here, yet I am not at all convinced
they are a better alternative than Pc's. And I have not even included
the soft-factor in here.


naji.
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