Mark Gordon wrote:
> 
> Ron Parker wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:53:43 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > >I use Sun Solaris as my primary workstation so I can help you with this.
> > >First you will need to get a recent copy of Pov-Ray and the binaries on the
> > >Pov-Ray site are grossly out of date with no hope of that changing.  God only
> > >knows why.
> >
> > Something about none of us having a Sun machine to test them on.  Anybody
> > has an old SparcStation they were just gonna throw out, let me know.
> 
> I'm flirting with the notion of picking up a SunBlade at the current
> price, but it may be a few months (maybe after SIGGRAPH).
> 
> -Mark Gordon

Don't do it Mark!  Those things are flowing through to people that simply
don't know any better.  The SunBlade 100 is simply Sun's way of recoving their
initial R&D expenses on the SunFire processor.  The SunBlade 100 does not have
an UltraSparc III processor.  It has an UltraSparc IIe processor with little
or no effective cache.  No one in the Sun world would consider a processor
with 256k of cache when the currently shipping UltraSparc II processors have
4Mb and 8Mb of cache.  That little box is cheap for a reason.  Wait a little
while.  In a rapidly falling market you will see the older systems [ Sun Ultra
2 for example ] dropping in price.  There is a system on eBay right now with
dual 300MHz processors and 256Mb RAM for next to nothing [ $1500.00 ] with a
Creator Card for graphics.  Don't spend your hard earned money on that
SunBlade 100 junk.  Get an old Ultra 2 or Ultra 60 with real processors for
about the same price and get great performance.

Dennis

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