Re: New Emacs with GTK!

[Sven Utcke <utcke+news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>]

"Daniel R. Anderson" <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

> <snip>
> > Well, SUN sells _slow_ hardware, so I still don't see how gnome would
> </snip>
> 
> Out of curiousity if Sun's hardware is so slow why do so many people use
> it and why are they the huge company that they are?

Because it is reliable and scales nicely (the _real_ computers, that
is, not the relabelled PCs they are nowadays selling).  Even the
fastest server is still pretty slow, certainly when compared to the
power half the money would buy in Linux-powered PCs, but the nice
thing is that for 100 users it's not that much slower than what it was
for 1 (which even nowadays can't be said for Linux).  And of course
you can leave them running 24/365, and they will hardly ever break,
and if they do are _very_ easy to fix.

Still, that said you could get the same reliability and similar
performance out of a couple of Linux-PCs --- it might just be harder
to get someone to set it up for you...

Sven
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