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 14:23:40 +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> <87brzy6106.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049200626 810 80.91.224.249 (1 Apr 2003 12:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 14:37:01 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 190L0e-0000C1-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:37:00 +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 190Kqe-00007H-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 07:26:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: kogs31.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Original-X-Trace: rzsun03.rrz.uni-hamburg.de 1049199820 15086 134.100.12.153 (1 Apr 2003 12:23:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-hamburg.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Apr 2003 12:23:40 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111554 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:8053 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8053 Tim X writes: > due to the heat. I also think Sun has a better bus architecture for > high end hardware and can obtain a higher through put. I don't think that's true anymore when compared to modern PCs (but might be wrong) --- it certainly would be true only for SUN's highend servers... > I actually suspect Sun hardware is quite good and fast even on > workstations (though still very expensive) and its the OS which makes Nope. The new Sunblades are real dogs, with processors in the 700MHz range (or, more likely, below), an 80MHz PCI bus and IDE-everything --- no matter what OS, for most applications they're about equal to a Pentium III at about 1GHz, which cost about 1/8th... Sven -- _ __ The Cognitive Systems Group | |/ /___ __ _ ___ University of Hamburg | '