Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Dec 14 2022 06:35:00

-=> tenser wrote to esc <=-

 te> A PC with a Pentium
 te> was only half as good as a SPARCstation or SGI, but a quarter
 te> of the cost, and the trend line was heading towards favoring the
 te> PC within a decade.

In 1999, I ran the web site for a company that used a Sun Enterprise 250 for 
Oracle and an Ultra 2 for the web front-end running Tomcat. When we expanded 
the site, I bought several 1u intel boxes and threw Linux on them, and they 
ran the web site. I'm pretty sure they cost less than another Ultra 2. That 
was the tipping point for me.


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