Re: Newbie... One more please
>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
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