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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT and Amiga3000UX
Message-ID: <1014@nada.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 20:25:15 GMT
References: <9012040152.AA09539@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <673@storm.UUCP> <4128@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Organization: UT at Austin, Dept. of CS
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In article <4128@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>In article <673@storm.UUCP>, bostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom) writes...
>^In article <9012040152.AA09539@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 91_bickingd@GAR.UNION.EDU ("Bicking, David") writes:
>
>This may be a silly question but wouldn't you tend to want to do your massive
>number crunching on a mainframe and use the workstation for display pruposes?

Many of the newer workstations are approaching or surpassing mainframe
performance on some types of problems.  Also much of the work that used
to be done on mainframes is now being done on workstations because
CPU time is much easier to obtain on a workstation.  A given mainframe
may be 10 times faster than some workstation but if you have to share
the mainframe cpu with 100 other simultaneous users, the workstation
will get the job done first (assuming there are only a few users).  It
all comes down to price/performance.
-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas