From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Utcke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New Emacs with GTK! Date: 01 Apr 2003 14:13:41 +0200 Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87el4z9t43.fsf@cecilia.trollope.org> <87y935se36.fsf@smtp.wegointer.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049200454 32491 80.91.224.249 (1 Apr 2003 12:34:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 14:34:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 190Kxv-0008Rq-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:34:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 190KkR-0007yn-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 07:20:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: kogs31.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Original-X-Trace: rzsun03.rrz.uni-hamburg.de 1049199222 15086 134.100.12.153 (1 Apr 2003 12:13:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-hamburg.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Apr 2003 12:13:42 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111553 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8052 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8052 "Daniel R. Anderson" writes: > > > Well, SUN sells _slow_ hardware, so I still don't see how gnome would > > > 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 -- _ __ The Cognitive Systems Group | |/ /___ __ _ ___ University of Hamburg | '