[SunRescue] 5 major manufacturers?

[DaveMcGuiremcguire at neurotica.com]

  I dunno, man...those PA-RISC boxes have great big floating-point balls
the size of watermelons.

      -Dave McGuire

On September 27, Brian McCloskey wrote:
> hmn, i found in my tenure as an hp-ux admin (properly pronounced HP-SUX or 
> HP-YUX) that pa-risc boxes were *only* good for generating heat, passing 
> ridiculous benchmarks, and patching. i could be wrong though, i was wrong 
> once.
> 
> -wu
> 
> 
> >From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster at twmaster.com>
> >Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [SunRescue] 5 major manufacturers?
> >Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 02:53:56 -0400
> >
> >To be honest I am a hardware junkie, I just love fooling with he stuff. The
> >machine I am using depends on what I am trying to do, for example, I play
> >with some graphics stuff on my SGI Indigo 2, it just has big hairy graphics
> >balls. when I want to do a ton of things simultaneously I use my Ultra 
> >SPARC
> >box, for simple things like doing e-mail I lay in bed with my PIII laptop
> >and just get comfy. Other boxes like the Alpha's and the HP PA-RISC 
> >machines
> >have huge ability to leap over numbers with a single wham! They make kick
> >ass SETI and RC5 crunching boxes as well as bad ass CAD machines. I run my
> >mail and web server on an SS2, most of the other machines I own are just
> >sitting around till I get moved into my house I am buying then I will find
> >productive work for them. Of course we all have our own personal fav's but
> >the truth is if you wanna get work done, get a real machine with a real CPU
> >like any of the UNIX boxes from the previously mentioned 5 companies.
> >
> >Mike N
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Stou Sandalski" <tangui at cell2000.net>
> >To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:23 AM
> >Subject: RE: [SunRescue] 5 major manufacturers?
> >
> >
> > > Ohhhh I've heard of AIX, but I thought it was a VMS (or is it VAX? damn 
> >I
> > > keep forgetting which is the OS and which is the platform) like OS... I
> > > didn't think it was Unixish...
> > >
> > > oh one question... people keep asking me "Why the hell do you need a
> > > UltraSparc or an Alpha workstation" and I never really answer... because 
> >I
> > > dont know... other then cracking passwords what can these machines do?
> >what
> > > do you guys use your phat systems for?
> > >
> > >
> > > Stou
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> > > > Behalf Of Mark A. Pitman
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 23:01
> > > > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] 5 major manufacturers?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > IBM systems run AIX, and you are correct about HPs, they run
> > > > HP-UX (properly
> > > > pronounced "h-pucks" :)
> > > >
> > > > m
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Stou Sandalski wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > IBM makes unix boxes? What OS do them stuffs run? What bout HP is 
> >that
> > > > > running HP-UX or has my mind made that up in a state of delirium 
> >(sp)?
> > > > >
> > > > > Stou
> > > > >
> > > >
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