Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

2001-05-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks for the input guys... > I took it upon myself to do some VERY basic testing... > and I'll share my results if anyone's interested. > > The test: untarring a 88MB file full of .gifs and .html files >

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

2001-05-25 Thread Andrew D Dixon
MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Mike Egglestone (on Thu, 24 May 2001 07:00:44PM -0700): > > Which platform of hardware would be best? > > G4 from apple > > Pentium something from somewhere > > is that a serious question??? > the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC > is

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

2001-05-25 Thread Sean Morgan
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Thanks for the input guys... > I took it upon myself to do some VERY basic testing... > and I'll share my results if anyone's interested. > > The test: untarring a 88MB file full of .gifs and .html files > > Imac 400 Mhz 128 R

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

2001-05-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Weird... seems like hard drive performance is > very important too:) In fact, disk is often more important than the processor! When building a box, I go for RAM, disk, and processor in that order. If you don't have enough RAM,

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
Thanks for the input guys... I took it upon myself to do some VERY basic testing... and I'll share my results if anyone's interested. The test: untarring a 88MB file full of .gifs and .html files Imac 400 Mhz 128 Ram IDE drive time= 53 seconds Celeron 700 Mhz 128 Ram IDE drive time= 80 secon

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

2001-05-24 Thread kyle
> > then again, unless you are talking absolutely high volume, there is > > nothing of big computational cost that your server will do, so i'd > > assume a pentium would work just as fine. however, if you have the > > means, go for the G4! > > No, go for the PIII, especially if you're going to run

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

2001-05-24 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > is that a serious question??? > the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC > is just pittyful compared to RISC. Irrelevant with today's modern CPUs like the PIII.

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

2001-05-24 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Mike Egglestone (on Thu, 24 May 2001 07:00:44PM -0700): > Which platform of hardware would be best? > G4 from apple > Pentium something from somewhere is that a serious question??? the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC is just pittyful compared to RISC.