recently, according to an NT guy (who actualy knew his stuff) I was
talking to, compaq actualy does have some preformance advantages in their
higher end servers, where they use their own memory/bus chipsets, and not
intel's off the shelf stuff. they use something called "crossbar
switch" which allows DRAM requests to be interlaced to multiple dimm's at
a time.. which is really cool.
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 andy at theasis.com wrote:
> >
> > > > statistics *never* imply causality, nor guarantee outcomes.
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > That's not true ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > that is.
> >
> > I'm not going to argue the point. Look in any statistics book at your
> > convenience. What I said is provably correct, so I have no bones to pick
> > about it.~
>
> Come back and talk to me when you've gone through a stats Ph.D. program.
>
> > > I've had poopy experience with Compaqs, but nigh on 2 years ago.
> > > out of 12 systems delivered, 3 were DOA, one had no CPU in it.
> > > That's where the problem started.
> >
> > I have apparently been the exception that proves the rule. I have a
> > Compaq that works OK, but it's a home desktop sort (Presario?). Even
> > though it works OK, it has no upgrade path, so that bites.
>
> That'd be a huge deal for me, but not necessarily for the application that
> started the thread.
>
> Never have I seen Compaq to stand out in terms of performance. I've also
> heard too many reports of other quality control problems.
>
> But I wonder why VALinux is the only one mentioned -- is there an option
> to consider e.g., Dell? This way you can sorta compare apples to apples,
> by taking the same systems and evaluating the vendor's (relatively new)
> Linux support vs. the more established Win32 support.
>
> Andy
>
> > Cheers,
> > Phil M
>
>
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