Would it surprise anyone to know that up until a couple of weeks ago, the fastest UltraSparc II CPU available in any Sun machine was 440MHz? Even now, their high-end, million-dollar-plus servers use only those CPUs. Sure, they have up to 64 of them, but they're only 440MHz.
Have you ever used any of their machines as sole user mode? They seem awfully sluggish. When they excel is when you start adding users. An intel box starts conking out at 10 users, a good sun box supports over a hundred "active" users without much problem... |
