[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[scohen - Stephen Cohen]

A SPARCstation IPX running with the PowerUp CPU (40 to 80Mhz) upgrade is not
quite as fast as an Intel 486dx2 50Mhz running Linux 6.2.  However, some of
the perceived speed difference may be that the IPX appears to have much
slower graphics (X-based GUI) than the Intel box.

All of the above is 'seat of the pants' estimates.

-----Original Message-----
From: chris Gnther [mailto:madram at video.de]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:16 AM
To: MailingList SUN Help
Subject: [SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC


Hi all,

some of you propably do know me and my "little" problem with my SUN IPC.
Now - after 6 weeks of consequentely trying to get it work and failling
miserably - I come to a point where I'd like to know what exactly I could
do with it would ever get it to work.

So my question is:

    How fast or strong is a SUN IPC?

My configuration is as follows:
- SUN IPC with WEITEK-Chip
- all 12 RAM Banks filled (still don't know how much RAM this is) 
- 2GB IBM HDD
- a second Framebuffer card
- an ISDN-card 
- and two 16" SUN-Monitors

Can anyone tell me what exactly I can do with it.

To give you a point on what I normally do with my PC running SOL8:
- writing with LaTeX2e
- Database-Developing with mySQL (runs on my Server)
- C and C++ programming


    thanks in advance,

        chris

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|  database design & programming  |
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