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Xref: sserve comp.unix.sys5.r4:9075 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8014 comp.unix.misc:15528 comp.unix.bsd:15902 comp.sys.powerpc:31942 comp.sys.intel:29263 comp.os.misc:3698 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!psinntp!barilvm!vms.huji.ac.il!shum.cc.huji.ac.il!nntpserver.huji.ac.il!hjstein Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,co Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Message-ID: <HJSTEIN.95Jan9093234@sunset.huji.ac.il> From: hjstein@sunset.huji.ac.il (Harvey J. Stein) Date: 9 Jan 95 09:32:34 References: <3d8e0l$6ve@galaxy.ucr.edu> <NEWTNews.3157.788323227.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsign al.com> <3dtjnh$r7u@galaxy.ucr.edu> <tsikesD1zwqr.7JF@netcom.com><3ek26k$6o2@galaxy.ucr.edu> Organization: Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel NNTP-Posting-Host: sunset.ma.huji.ac.il In-reply-to: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu's message of 6 Jan 1995 18:29:40 GMT Lines: 35 In article <3ek26k$6o2@galaxy.ucr.edu> jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes: In article <tsikesD1zwqr.7JF@netcom.com>, Terry Sikes <tsikes@netcom.com> wrote: >Well, I'm not the original poster, but I hope the 'community' found >this of interest... :) yes, quite. >> jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu / You can't figure out how to >> A linux machine! because a 486 / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box? >> is a terrible thing to waste! / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!! > >Who needs to accelerate a 275 MHz. Alpha? ;) Actually, there is no disrespect for the hardware intended there - the platform can be thouroughly rehabilitated - I have helped more than 1 "microsoft developer" upgrade their Intel platforms from NT to Linux - they were quite pleased with the difference. As for Alphas - it made me want to cry when a number of these beautiful machines arrive here saddled with NT - However, after an evaluation period, NT was scrubbed in favor of DEC/OSF UNIX, which resulted in approximately a 3-fold increase in speed, according to benchmarks run under each OS. (Imagine how fast linux will be on these machines) Can you give more details on the benchmarks you ran & the machines you ran them on (such as benchmark descriptions & numbers & machine memory, etc). Thanks, -- Dr. Harvey J. Stein Berger Financial Research hjstein@math.huji.ac.il