On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Howard Martin wrote:

>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.

Not to defend Sun, but keep in mind that there's more to the hardware
equation than just CPU specs. There's the issue of backplane speed, PCI
controller speed, and so on.

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