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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.152529.4324@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 15:25:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug22.155636.16266@unixland.natick.ma.us>, bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
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- | Based on my experience with Sun machines, and my experiences with my
- | one INTEL Unix machine (486/33, ESIX 3.2-d), there is one difference
- | that really stands out ... Not Performance, but RELIABILITY.
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- I've noticed that, too. My system at home was up for 368 days until I
- needed to install some new hardware. My Sun needs to be rebooted about
- every 30 days or so because of various things which don't quite get
- cleaned up.
-
- And the performance of the PC, at least under Dell V.4, is much better
- when there's something large running in the background. I have to run
- big PBM graphics jobs with nice on the Sun to keep the CPU free for
- other things, but the PC doesn't seem to have that problem.
-
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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