SUN has a "cheap" workstation (I think it's the Ultra 5) that only comes with ATA on board. You can buy it online. And Sun's move is worse than Apple's because they initially used a 4500 rpm drive - yuck.
Why is it that you want Ultra-DMA but not plain DMA? According to what I know the two are exactly the same thing except for the maximum sustained data transfer rate.
The fastest Ultra DMA drive on the planet (I think that is an IBM 7200 rpm) cannot sustain more than 16.6 MB/s.
You can see that for yourself if you issue the following benchmark:
date; dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=100000; date
So there really is no point to switch to BSD because of DMA support. In fact you can apply RAID patches to the Linux kernel which will allow extremely fast software RAID-0.
If you're about to argue about the hardware cached reads: that is really not an issue since the drive will cache only around 512 kB while the kernel caches around 100 times as much, provided you have some RAM left over.
Unlike SCSI, adding more ATA drives to a controller does not increase the traffic on the controller because the drives cannot use the bus at the same time. There is no need to increase the MB/s.
Could be. The US goverment always tries very hard to stay in charge of US built machines, even when they are sold to the outside world.
There was a big problem when researchers from Iran wanted to use the Cray T3E at Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands.
The US goverment forced Cray to try to stop Delft University from letting those Iranians use the machine or else.. (I don't know what their threat was orwhat happened).
The problem with all this was that it is against the first article of our constitution (which prohibits discrimination upon race, religion, etc.) to deny access to certain university employees.
*nix is great for those of us that need power and reliability (and don't mind the learning curve).
Again, what learning curve?
Linux is no more difficult than Windows especially for more demanding things like running server applications.
Most computer users have started their life learning what of the various icons and dialog boxes in Windows are for. After having mastered those things, they start on Linux. Again they have to learn something, like using a keyboard. But this time it's easier because now it's logical. They can use their intelligence rather than their good luck in making their computer work;-)
As a Greenpeace supporter you urge me to respond to your offense on Greenpeace.
In Holland Greenpeace collaborates with the Dutch government to install solar energy collectors on houses of consumers. A dutch house-owner can apply for a subsidized solar collector which will cost less than half of normal prize. Thus it will be cheaper (in the long run=10 years) than buying energy from a local energy company. Thanks to Greenpeace! The project is aptly but confusingly named "Solaris". Greenpeace has a (dutch) website here.
On nuclear power: Greenpeace may be fiercely against nuclear power (I am not), in Holland it is the government that shuts down the old plants. And the government of the Netherlands are the people themselves.
The reason we shut the existing plants down is that old-style, colossal, complex nuclear power facilities are way too unprofitable to sustain. That is if you want to apply decent security measures.
A lot of American people and companies and local governments are ruthless in how they exploit the country. If you want to destroy all nature in your country, eventually you'll make life for yourself uncomfortable too. No more hot water for you - no more water at all. But we in Europe wouldn't care a bit.
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SUN has a "cheap" workstation (I think it's the Ultra 5) that only comes with ATA on board. You can buy it online. And Sun's move is worse than Apple's because they initially used a 4500 rpm drive - yuck.
The fastest Ultra DMA drive on the planet (I think that is an IBM 7200 rpm) cannot sustain more than 16.6 MB/s.
You can see that for yourself if you issue the following benchmark:
date; dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=100000; date
So there really is no point to switch to BSD because of DMA support. In fact you can apply RAID patches to the Linux kernel which will allow extremely fast software RAID-0.
Could be. The US goverment always tries very hard to stay in charge of US built machines, even when they are sold to the outside world.
There was a big problem when researchers from Iran wanted to use the Cray T3E at Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands.
The US goverment forced Cray to try to stop Delft University from letting those Iranians use the machine or else.. (I don't know what their threat was orwhat happened).
The problem with all this was that it is against the first article of our constitution (which prohibits discrimination upon race, religion, etc.) to deny access to certain university employees.
Again, what learning curve?
Linux is no more difficult than Windows especially for more demanding things like running server applications.
Most computer users have started their life learning what of the various icons and dialog boxes in Windows are for. After having mastered those things, they start on Linux. Again they have to learn something, like using a keyboard. But this time it's easier because now it's logical. They can use their intelligence rather than their good luck in making their computer work ;-)
As a Greenpeace supporter you urge me to respond to your offense on Greenpeace.
In Holland Greenpeace collaborates with the Dutch government to install solar energy collectors on houses of consumers. A dutch house-owner can apply for a subsidized solar collector which will cost less than half of normal prize. Thus it will be cheaper (in the long run=10 years) than buying energy from a local energy company. Thanks to Greenpeace! The project is aptly but confusingly named "Solaris". Greenpeace has a (dutch) website here.
On nuclear power: Greenpeace may be fiercely against nuclear power (I am not), in Holland it is the government that shuts down the old plants. And the government of the Netherlands are the people themselves.
The reason we shut the existing plants down is that old-style, colossal, complex nuclear power facilities are way too unprofitable to sustain. That is if you want to apply decent security measures.
A lot of American people and companies and local governments are ruthless in how they exploit the country. If you want to destroy all nature in your country, eventually you'll make life for yourself uncomfortable too. No more hot water for you - no more water at all. But we in Europe wouldn't care a bit.