[geeks] Surprised

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:47:13AM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> vance at ikickass.org writes:
> 
> >On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 dave at cca.org wrote:
> 
> >> I enjoy explaining to people why I would *never* trade
> >> my 25 Mhz POWER RS/6000 for their Ghz PC...
> 
> >I don't think these people realize how much faster a 160MHz POWER2SC is
> >than an 850MHz Pentium III.  I have both sitting here in front of me, and
> >the POWER at SC is *way* faster.
> 
> Just try explaining POWER4! :-)
> 
> (I do need to get a POWER2 box at some point. That would do wonders
> for my postscript render time...)

Have you considered a Nextdimension?  But then, it probably doesn't work so
well with a remote client like X does.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd