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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news-peer.nctu.edu.tw!news.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Date: 30 Mar 1997 23:45:19 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5hmtuf$dio@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5g9hjp$api@flea.best.net> <5gmb58$6jd$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gn3ig$83d@flea.best.net> <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> <5hd29s$e7t@fido.asd.sgi.com> <333C1614.ABD@sgi01.grn.aera.com> <5hhv1k$jh9@fido.asd.sgi.com> <333E3530.794B@sgi01.grn.aera.com> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38085 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6514 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29537 Lee Ward (lee@sgi01.grn.aera.com) wrote: : Larry McVoy wrote: : So, what you are saying is that $130,000 isn't in the "hundreds"? Since : you don't seem to take a hint well, I'll say it plainly: you are : comparing a one-hundred thousand dollar machine to a 20,000 dollar : machine. You are using figures from that 100,000 dollar machine to argue : that someone should buy it or a cousin as a news server? Why? I'm not saying anything of the sort. This topic has wander far away from the news server discussion. If you go back and look, there were numerous places where Matt & Co suggested that SGI's couldn't do anything right. Especially in the area of file systems. I simply pointed out that there are things that SGI's do right, in fact better than anyone else. : My point is that you appear to dismiss anything that couldn't justify : the cost of an SGI. Not true. Wander backward through my posts and you'll see that I said that there are lots of places where an SGI isn't worth it. I use a PC at home. I can't afford an SGI to read news and send mail on. Wouldn't ask anyone else to do so either. Nothing special about the SGI, by the way. The same statement is true for Sun/DEC/etc. -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804