On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:41:22 -0600, Tim Mooney
<mooney AT DOGBERT.CC.NDSU.NODAK DOT EDU> wrote:

>Dollar-for-dollar there's no question that an Intel box will beat a
>comparably priced SPARC in CPU performance.  How Sun's been "king" with
>such an anemic CPU for so many years still baffles me.

IMHO Sun has been "king" for a long time bacause their boxes are generally
well balanced machines - for many years I would have said that Sun weren't
the best for anything but often second best at a lot of things.

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