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Index of Subjects On Jan 16, 12:19am, Neale Partington wrote: } Subject: Re: Moving to Intel > On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Kevin_Georgison wrote: > > > On 14 Jan 97 at 15:07, Landon Boyd wrote about Re: Moving to Intel: > > > > > On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Eric Howland wrote: > > > > > > > [ snip ] > > > > > > It seems very likely that this new machine will be Intel. > > > > At the time we move, I would like to move to csuite. Since version > > > > 5+ runs on both Linux and Solaris I wonder if there is a consensus > > > > about Solaris for Intel vs. Linux. > > > > I didn't know you could get Solaris for Intel. Isn't it Sun proprietary? > > Also, I'm told there are more Free-Nets running on Sun than Linux. (I > gotta stick up for Sun lest support diminish for it :-) Sun's are good platforms and very reliable if you take care to configure the OS properly. When we bought systems in 1994 for the HWFN the Sun Workstations were the way to go for the robustness and availability of software ports, etc. Now, however, pentium systems running Linux, BSDI Unix, or even NT are all reasonable environments in my opinion. The nice thing about going the Intel route is that you are not tied into a single vendors OS. You can run all the above OSes and even go to Solaris 2.5 if that is necessary. The robustness didn't exist yet in 1994 but if it did and the fast pentium systems were available back then I think the HWFN would have suggested going that route. The one thing that people don't take care of when buying Intel boxes is making sure they have the appropriate hardware for the job. The workstations come with high performance SCSI controllers and reliable network chips and so forth. Too many people just buy the regular home consumer brand PC and try to get it to handle a multi-user environment. Big mistake. You have to look at top notch controllers and think carefully about slitting loads over multiple disk controllers and disks, etc. Anyway those are my 2 cents. dan -- Dan Trottier dan@mcmaster.ca Dept of Computer Science & Systems http://www.dcss.mcmaster.ca/~dan McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (905) 525-9140 x23444
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