Re: Super-fast Hardware for INFORMIX/XENIX

In article <1993Mar5.144530.18228@sdc.com> emike@sdc.com (E. Mike Durbin) writes: >>The configuration I have been recommended is a 66Mhz 486DX with 128k RAM Cache >>and 16Mb SIMMS Memory. For the disk I can choose either 340Mb SCSI hard drive with >> a fast access speed or twin 210Mb IDE disk with a built-in cache. > >I wonder how much this 486 costs (complete with XENIX, disks, etc.). >Compare that to the cost of a SPARCclassic Server, with a 10Meg/sec 1Gig >internal disk, and up to 96Meg of RAM. Basic system LISTS for $5100 (complete). Uh, yeah, except that doesn't include the O/S. Or the CD-ROM drive which is needed to install the O/S. etc. >I also wonder which would be faster. I can run this test on an LX >(same processor as the CLASSIC). Anyone have test data and scripts (RDS, ISQL >and SE run on Solaris 2.1). I'd suspect that the 486 would be faster unless floating-point datatypes were used... >E. Mike Durbin -- Alan Denney "If that honey would come back aland@informix.com we would throw such a party {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland Drink, and cook the prodigal son Disclaimer: I am a Toon. Fondue forks for everybody." - TMBG