slow on HPUX, SunOS, fast on MS Win2K and Linux?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <bxaivQEVTxy9EwsF at hiredata.gol.com>,
Ian Parker  <parker at gol.com> wrote:
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>In a previous incarnation as a datacentre manager, I was increasingly 
>embarrassed that of all the "serious" machines in our datacentre (Sun, 
>IBM and HP, Compaq Alpha)  only the some of Compaq Alphaservers were 
>faster, CPU for CPU, than the recent Intel boxes.  We bought the 
>"serious" machines for more for their multiprocessing, large memory, i/o 
>bandwidth or even OS (e.g. for VMS or Tru64 UNIX clustering).
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This is somehow even more so for mainframes, whose
CPU performance for decades has been mediocre, but
which remain champs at moving data around.
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Cameron Laird <Cameron at Lairds.com>
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