Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

["Mike Egglestone" <megglestone@heritage.sd57.bc.ca>]

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 seconds

Celeron 700 Mhz 128 Ram SCSI drive
time=21 seconds...

Weird... seems like hard drive performance is
very important too....:)

I'm just happy that Debian offers both platforms!!
I'll probably go with whatever is less costly.....

thanks
Mike