don't laugh, i had a DECstation 5000/200 outperform a 350MHz 
wintel-something, with the DECstation running stuff i wrote and the 
wintel running access! 

isildur

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Brian Chase wrote:
> And certainly things like MySQL should run fine on even a modest VAX.
> For simple table organizations and queries, and an equivalently sized
> database of several hundred megs, I'd bet MySQL performs better on a 24Meg
> VAXstation 3100/M38 than Microsoft Access does on an 128MB Intel 733MHz
> PIII :-)
> 
> -brian.
> 
>