[3059] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-West is up again (Sun's & Alphas)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Sat Jun 1 19:24:40 1996
To: nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jun 1996 13:17:07 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 16:20:42 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Warning: this is irrelevant to the stated charter of NANOG. Hit "D" now.
I mean it. Don't read this. It's not about network operations.
> This not just true for UNIX, a good friend of mine works out at Microsoft
> on the NT development team. He claims they've been seeing similar
> numbers on Alpha and Pentium Pro machines under Windows NT.
My experience differs significantly, but then my P/Pro is 200MHz and my
Alpha is 333MHz. Microsoft probably has older Alphas and newer P/Pro's.
Any of you installing Sun or Intel machines for netnews or shell or file
service or anything else requiring good source code compatibility (barring
32-bit pointer assumptions such as those in the route servers) and large
numbers of computrons are being silly. DEC would loan you an Alpha for a
month to prove you wrong, since they know you won't be able to live without
it and the chance of them having to take it back is small.
