[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[Dave McGuire]

  Wow...what OS was this IPX running?  I've always had to get well up
into the mid-range Pentium family before a PeeCee would perceptibly
outperform an IPX...*especially* in graphics performance...I've
always run either SunOS4 or NetBSD/sparc on them.

          -Dave McGuire

On July 6, scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> 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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> |             chris               |
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> |  database design & programming  |
> |   agentur fiedler / video.de    |
> |                                 |
> |                 madram at video.de |
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