I find it funny that Metacalfe writes that Windows has more of an installed server % than UNIX. Is he on cocaine? I mean seriously.. simple: Apache runs on more than 50 % of web server's alone. Granted it runs on win32, which sucks balls anyway, thats 50 % of server's running unix right there! (roughly) Hard to believe this guys invented ethernet and founded 3Com huh? heh Shmuck didn't even mention MacOS X, LOL.
I can almost guarantee you the new 450 PPC 750 (G3) tower will give that 533 Alpha a run for its money. I agree with you on the cluster issue though, as for Mr price compare, those prices are so damn close you would have to be full of heroin not to choose the PowerMac. 99$, is nothing.
I'm sure you do. You can't pay 1599$ for a decent 350 B&W G3 system? 4 times as much maybe on the third ring of Uranus, where do you get these numbers. On the Alpha, 1500 for the processor and power chord maybe. You say you work on them all day, you "can probably" know the price and not assume:) I vote PowerPC
I find it rather disturbing, it seems everyone here is so x86 centric. Common guys, I use both, and clearly the Pentium is a piece of retriever shit compared to the G3. Not to mention the PIII, a mere joke. A year old shipping chip, the G3, still beats a brand new PIII, even at slower clock speeds (which not always matters of course). Checkout OS X Server or LinuxPPC, on a much faster RISC processor. And as for all this "g3 FPU crap", that is exactly what it is, crap, BS. The FPU on a G3 will punch any Pentium out of the ring easy. If you really want to see FPU performance like none other, read into the G4's by the end of the year. BTW, where are the Merced's? heh
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I find it funny that Metacalfe writes that Windows has more of an installed server % than UNIX. Is he on cocaine? I mean seriously.. simple: Apache runs on more than 50 % of web server's alone. Granted it runs on win32, which sucks balls anyway, thats 50 % of server's running unix right there! (roughly) Hard to believe this guys invented ethernet and founded 3Com huh? heh Shmuck didn't even mention MacOS X, LOL.
I can almost guarantee you the new 450 PPC 750 (G3) tower will give that 533 Alpha a run for its money. I agree with you on the cluster issue though, as for Mr price compare, those prices are so damn close you would have to be full of heroin not to choose the PowerMac. 99$, is nothing.
I'm sure you do. You can't pay 1599$ for a decent 350 B&W G3 system? 4 times as much maybe on the third ring of Uranus, where do you get these numbers. On the Alpha, 1500 for the processor and power chord maybe. You say you work on them all day, you "can probably" know the price and not assume :) I vote PowerPC
I have a 400 Mhz B&W G3 tower, it sure in hell boots without a monitor attached :)
I find it rather disturbing, it seems everyone here is so x86 centric. Common guys, I use both, and clearly the Pentium is a piece of retriever shit compared to the G3. Not to mention the PIII, a mere joke. A year old shipping chip, the G3, still beats a brand new PIII, even at slower clock speeds (which not always matters of course). Checkout OS X Server or LinuxPPC, on a much faster RISC processor. And as for all this "g3 FPU crap", that is exactly what it is, crap, BS. The FPU on a G3 will punch any Pentium out of the ring easy. If you really want to see FPU performance like none other, read into the G4's by the end of the year. BTW, where are the Merced's? heh