>Thanks group for the great answers on the Linux vs Win98 question for >calculation speeds.
>One thing puzzles me though -- the fastest platform listed for the algorithm >work unit (175 billion calculations) is an Alpha/Windows combination -7hr 20 >min! >( vs Intel/Linux -18 hr; vs Sparc/Solaris -15 hr; and last of course, is >Pentium/Windows - 30 hr 49 min ) That's probably NT4, not win 98..... and the Alpha may be just so much faster than that poor old 386. Think of what would happen were Linux running on a PII 266 instead of a 386/33! Koyote