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From: cquenel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (-3 more school days)
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Subject: Re: DECStation vs. SPARCstation, need help!
Message-ID: <11875@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 10 Jun 89 18:37:02 GMT
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In 10108 gengenba@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Michael Gengenbach) sez:
>Now there are two favorized Workstations:
>
>    - DECStation 3100
>    - SPARCstation 1 or SPARCstation 330
>
>As we do not have much knowledge in RISC-technology, we have a couple
>of questions:
>
>   - what do you think about RISC vs. CISC in performance of
>     AI-applications (Lisp, Prolog, Databases, image-processing),
>     i.e. symbolic computation?

	Fer GOSH sakes!
	The best advice anyone could give:
	
	Bundle up some of the stuff you run and tote it
	on over to whomever you're going to buy from!

	All you gotta say is : "I'll buy whichever performs better
	on MY code, not some silly foo-stones!"
	And let the silly salesmen duke it out.

	Just be sure you're watching over their shoulder.
	
	There could be many reasons why this is impossible,
	but if it is at all possible, DO IT!

	--chris


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