Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!voder!nsc!amdahl!JUTS!duts!kls30 From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: What to buy??(numbercruncher) Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 13:58:39 GMT References: <71A0D62DC000263C@FANDM> <1991Jun17.142339.21049@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun17.233312.9357@menudo.uh.edu> <6ecHr*7?@cs.psu.edu> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Reply-To: kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 27 In article <6ecHr*7?@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <1991Jun17.233312.9357@menudo.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes: > > > Or put 18 or so megs in your 'miga. Or get a *real* computer: > Sun SparcStation-2. Or an Intel iPSC/860. > >A SSII is about 50% faster than a NeXTstation and quite a bit more SPEC benchmarks have the SSII at about 20-25%. Some things faster some slower. >expensive. And we can't forget that Mathematica is free on the NeXT >and it costs several hundred dollars for the SUN. For education Mathematica is free on the NeXT, others pay. It is somwhere in the $1000 range on a SSII. > >-Mike -- /* -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers. */ /* For I can only express my own opinions. */ /* */ /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */