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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!chsun!bernina!neptune!weingart
- From: weingart@inf.ethz.ch (Tobias Weingartner)
- Subject: Need help making up my mind.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.115808.22395@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
- Followup-To: poster
- Keywords: mind, boggled, help
- Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch (Mr News)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: tau.inf.ethz.ch
- Reply-To: weingart@inf.ethz.ch
- Organization: ETH - Switzerland
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:58:08 GMT
- Lines: 39
-
- Hello all!
-
- Ok, I have this fundamental problem. You see, a while back
- I got hooked on this neat OS called DOS. Ok, save your flames.
- What was so neat, was that there was lots of software to go
- with it. Anyways, a little while later, I got hooked on a
- even better drug, called UNIX. Wow, multiple procs, public
- domain software, great compilers, everything you could want.
-
- In the mean time, I have been making some money, and have
- decided that now would be a good time to buy a machine, that
- would keep me busy for the next couple of years. Of course,
- this baby will have to run UNIX. 4.3 or 4.4 BSD if I can get
- it. Source code would be cool, and a full load of X11R5, GNU,
- etc, etc...
-
- The problem now becomes this:
- Which machine should I buy? Now, like everybody else, I want
- something fast, cheap, good quality, etc. I basically have
- two choices. I can buy a sparc 2, get no source to the OS,
- basically be broke when I have it. Or I can buy somehting like
- a 486-50MHz, EISA, 1742a, S3-801, 19" monitor, and come out to
- roughly the same price. (Do these devices work? EISA work?)
-
- The question now becomes: How does the above 486 running 386BSD
- or Linux compare to a Sparc2 running 4.1.3? I have heard good
- things about the X server, but does anybody have any figures,
- experiences, etc?
-
- NOTE:
- I don't mind the machine crashing now an then, and putting up with
- some bugs.
-
- Any and all suggestions are welcome.
-
- --
- Tobias Weingartner * PGP2.0 Public Key available at *
- +41'41'33'25'40 * 'finger weingart@tau.inf.ethz.ch' *
- SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, the operating system has been overthrown
-