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- From: catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
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- Subject: Re: Have $8000, what to buy?
- Message-ID: <CATONE.92Aug15105317@sovereign.dmark.wharton.upenn.edu>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 14:53:17 GMT
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- In-reply-to: paigen@tfs.com's message of 11 Aug 92 16:49:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.164928.2658@tfs.com> paigen@tfs.com (David Paigen) writes:
- HP-UX is
- ok, although many people will turn their nose up at it. How is the
- bang for the buck with HP? (A good company, by the way). Note that
- HP-UX is not BSD.
-
- Bang for the buck with HP is great; the 9000/700s have the best
- price/performance ratio of Unix workstations by far. HP/UX isn't that
- great; it is BSD on the inside but SYS V on the outside. I'm not much
- of a SYS V fan. The good news is that you can build enough PD tools
- to make the user and programming environment almost BSD. Get lots of
- RAM; HP/UX eats it up, and dies if you run out. HP/UX can also be
- killed by crashme, I'm told; I believe it, we've hung the whole
- machine (730) once or twice just with big processes. But that was
- with the standard 16 meg RAM; we now have 32, I'd recommend more, but
- then again we use it as a multiuser machine.
-
- I like DEC Ultrix better than HP/UX, but since DEC keeps changing their
- mind about Ultrix vs OSF/1, I'm not sure if I'd spend my money on DEC.
- Never mind that according to the benchmarks we ran, the HP 9000/730 is
- 3 times faster than a DECStation 5000/200 across the board.
-
- You can buy hot EISA 486-50 systems with fast SCSI 2 caching controllers
- and disks for $4000-$6000.
-
-
- - Tony
- catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu
-