Re: Solaris source

Ricky Beam (root@defiant.interpath.net)
Fri, 2 May 1997 04:37:03 -0400 (EDT)


Letting the chips far where they may, I quote Larry McVoy:
>Now that Linux is widely available and PCs are as fast as Suns, what's
>the advantage of a Sun?

Correction, PCs are fast_er_ than Suns -- depending on the models. And PCs
are a hell of a lot more cost effective. The only advatange to Sparc hardware
is the memory arch. In some situations, it blows Intel off the map.

>If you were Sun, what would you do?

Worry.

--Ricky