[SunRescue] Re: Recommend starter Sun?

[Dave McGuire]

On March 21, Ken Hansen wrote:
> SS/10s are not well-suited for 4-way SMP, IMHO. They can do it, and they can be useful, but you will spend an awful lot on CPUs that will always seem slow when you work on an Intel box of recent vintage.

  ...until you try to do more than one thing at a time on that Intel
box.  I like the ability to, i.e., run more than one compile
simultaneously without performance going into the toilet.  I've never
seen an Intel/Unix box that could handle that.

        -Dave McGuire