On Oct 30, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Miles Nordin wrote:
>>>>>> "sc" == Sean Caron <caron.sean@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     sc> there's lots of good old ultra hardware out there available
>     sc> for a song [...] take it over an x86 box anyday.
>
> I more or less agree, except that if you are running more than one or
> two very old, simple programs (apache, mutt, Postfix, Samba, Perl and
> BIND on a good day), these machines simply will not work.  ex.:
>
>  * Java (Azureus)
>  * OpenOffice
>  * anything using Gnome or KDE because of thread bugs

   That's why I use Solaris for those types of apps. ;)  You've not  
lived until you've seen Azureus running on a Enterprise-class Sun  
with eight 400MHz processors with 8MB of cache *each*, 8GB of RAM,  
and FC-attached hardware RAID.  I never thought anything written in  
Java could be "instant" until I saw that.  Woo!

                -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL