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From: gabe@netcom.com (Gabe Grigorescu)
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
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Nate Williams (nate@trout.sri.MT.net) wrote:

: Be careful that your 'MS-DOS-architecture' attitudes don't affect your
: attitudes too much.  I've got an 'MS-DOS-architecture' workstation
: sitting next to me that *blows* away every SUN workstation in all
: aspects in my entire organization.  At one point, SRI owned 25% of the
: workstations Sun sold. :)

Well, now that does not mean much if all your organization has is Sparc 2's
and you're comparing a P5 with those....


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	-gAbe

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