|
 |
Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
> 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Pov-Ray site are grossly out of date with no hope of that changing.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
To be honest, I don't need processing power; I need something I can use
to build binaries. Cache is nice, but if the binaries build a bit
slower, it doesn't matter that much to me. Don't worry; I won't shame
Sun with my benchmarks. ;-)
Still, it's probably going to be a few months before it happens, so I'll
see what's on the market in a few months.
-Mark Gordon
-Mark Gordon
Post a reply to this message
|
|
