[rescue] Sun 3/60

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Aug 16 00:27:19 CDT 2001


On August 15, james at foonly.com wrote:
> The argument that "XYZ is better because you can run gcc on it" doesn't
> hold much water when you're been able to run gcc on all the platforms in
> question.  For that matter, gcc is hardly a panacea, it still doesn't

  Hmm...was someone making that argument?  I certainly wasn't.

> I've been tempted towards PC's many times over the years both
> professionally and personally.  The bang for the buck is extremely
> appealing, but every time I've tried them out I've been burned.  Right now
> if I had $270 to spend on a system and didn't need CPU speed at the
> expense of everything else, I'd pick up a nice SS5 or SS20, install it
> somewhere and forget about it.
> 
> -James [in a PC free zone except for the laptop and SunPCi card]

  Agreed 100%!

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD



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