seamans@seaimage.nlm.nih.gov (06/05/91)
For those who do not remember this thread, I'll recap. In February '91, I had remarked about the differences between the Sun Sparc2 and Solbourne S4000 systems. Differences between them were insignificant, except in the price. I had also remarked about the benchmarks as quoted from Sun. With the test I`d run there was only a two minute increase by Sparc 2 over the S4000. Sparc2 = 1 hr 6 min S4000 = 1 hr 8 min Sun re-ran the test with their unbundled "C" complier and this test program ran in 30 minutes. The Solbourne marketing types promised me a re-test on the S4000 with a unbundled compiler, which they didn't have on a system at that time. It's now May 8, 1991 and still haven't run a re-test on the S4000. HELLO SOLBOURNE MARKETING TYPES ARE YOU READING THIS..... Now to the bottom line. We had a need of 24 or 32 bit color display for our applications. Solbourne was not able to deliver these in a time frame suitable for program. So we purchased two Sparc 2 GS models which were delivered in two weeks from the cutting of the purchase order. Those were received on March 29, 1991. And not to slander Solbourne to much, we also have purchased three S4000 GX 8 bit color models and are expecting delivery about May 24, 1991. BTW, the purchase orders were cut at different times. If I ever get to re-test this program on the S4000, I will Post.. Thanks to those of you who took time to answer my query. fetrow@bones.biostat.washington.edu mjacob@Eng.Sun.COM curt@ecn.purdue.edu pbg@cs.brown.edu katz@rpal.rockwell.com jdd@ois.db.toronto.edu ekrell@ulysses.att.com @cse.ogi.edu:bit!jayl@cse.ogi.edu validgh!validgh.com!dgh@uunet.UU.NET pjr@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU wolfgang@wsrcc.com sbil!steve@relay.EU.net mjr@decuac.DEC.COM motsps!chdasic.sps.mot.com!philipd@uunet.UU.NET carlo@gaia.gcs.oz.au siedelbe@stout.atd.ucar.EDU jyrki@hiisi.oulu.fi ingber@umiacs.UMD.EDU netcom!katcher@apple.com -- ============================================================= Jim Seamans seamans@nlm.nih.gov High Resolution Medicial Imaging Group (HRMIG) National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health Bldg 38A RM 712 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 (voice) 301 496-4441 (fax) 301 402-0118