[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 10:59 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Lots of companies maintain a "low end" product line.  Gearing up a 
> chip fab is *expensive*, and it pays to use as many chips of a given 
> type as you can.  Put simply (and this isn't meant to sound as snotty 
> as it's going to come out), if their UltraSPARC-II-based machines are 
> too slow for you, don't buy one.

I am just saying for their price points, they really ought to be using 
newer hardware.  I won't even compare to PeeCee's this time.  Compare 
to Power Macs.  What does $2,000 get you in a new Apple?  vs. Sun?

> They're plenty fast for a very large number of applications (and 
> believe me, there's nothing even remotely slow about four 450MHz 
> UltraSPARC-IIs in an E450, as I learned a couple of weeks ago) which 
> is why they're still selling like crazy.

Gotta disagree on the E450.  I used to have a few in my farm and boy 
were they a disappointment.  Their primary job was running EDA tools 
(mostly Synopsys).

Chris Hedemark
Hillsborough, NC
http://yonderway.com


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