> >For those of you not capable of running PMConsole today, INVEST IN A REAL
> >OS! It is youring whining, bitching, and complaining detracting from the
> >usefulness of this mailing list.
>
> Well, for some reason a $2K pentium running freebsd with 64MB of RAM outperforms
> a $35K Sparc20/71 with 512MB of RAM and best of all, you get to run real bsd
> unix rather than solaris. Isn't that shocking? That means that I can spend
> $33K on my customers, buying more modems and lines and offering more people
> a job then wasting it on a machine that may have a supported os, but stinks
> when it comes to doing the real job. I hate PC's personally, but after working
> with crays and bleeding-edge desktop workstations, there seems to be some use
> to them. SGI is a great platform and it has an unsupported OS, but it can
> waste a SUN anytime, and in the real world case, so can a pentium running unix.
Yes, and the big NSP are starting to get this also, uunet is moving from
sparc 20's to p90's for it's news servers.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World!
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