Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu.edu!xylogics!world!madd From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Risc System/6000 Message-ID: <1990Mar9.015943.4351@world.std.com> Date: 9 Mar 90 01:59:43 GMT References: <10307@hoptoad.uucp> <4115@ibmpa.UUCP> <5098@brazos.Rice.edu> <5139@brazos.Rice.edu> Organization: Saber Software Lines: 20 schafer@brazos.rice.edu (Richard A. Schafer) writes: >my calculations seem to suggest that the >(much?)-less-powerful SparcStation 1 actually costs a little bit *more* >then the equivalently configured PowerStation 320. Yep, but my sparcstation 1 worked right out of the box and hasn't crashed yet. Our 6000 took about a month of IBM technical support help to get running at all and we've already had to do an OS upgrade (which fixed a lot of stuff -- ksh no longer seems to crash the thing -- but there's a lot to be fixed). So it comes down to this: I can get my compiles done in twice the time all the time or half the time every couple of weeks. Which do you prefer? jim frost jimf@saber.com [Standard disclaimers]