[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:59:38AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 10:32 AM, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> >Ah but the V100 is using the old UltraSPARC II family, no?  I tried 
> >going to Sun's web site last night but it was down for over an hour.  
> >Oops!
> >
> >They are still pimping machines that are only incremental upgrades 
> >over my lowly Ultra 5 (using UltraSPARC II processors)
> 
>   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.  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.

Does anybody -not- have ecache problems on the 400MHz+ US-IIs?  It would take a lot for me to consider a machine based on those, since folks still call Sun support, and the support people know nothing about the problem.  
	Greg

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