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Re: [PLUG] Maybe OT - "Supported" Unix on Intel CPUs?
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William H. Magill said:
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> If you have to upgrade an RS/6000 any P4 based box you have laying
> around will be a much lower performing box... especially if it is
> cheaper. The price difference between Intel based hardware and
> proprietary hardware is much less than people believe it is real urban
> folklore. When you configure the Intel box with the same features as
> the RS/6000 it comes out very close to, if not more than equivalent
> non-intel boxes.
The clone box is a P3-880 MHz, actually, 256M RAM, 5 36G IBM UltraStar
drives on a Adaptec 3200 Ultra160 RAID.
The proposed RS/6K is a 620 series, 2G RAM, 6 36G 10K SSA drives.
The clone was like $7.5K; the RS/6000 is like $58K.
> To the best of my knowledge, you are correct. No "Unix" (ie Unix
> branded) runs on Intel. SCO might be the closest thing to "Unix" that
> does, except that it doesn't exist anymore. (I forget who bought them,
> Novell maybe?)
Novell used to own them; think they sold them off.
>> Let's not even mention the fact that the new RS/6000 would be one of
>> those
>> 64 bit versions, etc, and the other hardware is basically a clone box.
>
> This is actually the real crux of the issue. How big is the database?
Pick is limited to a 2G size. It manages as many of these 2G partitions as
necessary. Pick does all the managing of these "virtual disks" (as it sees
these partitions). So the database will span across these partitions.
> As for supported Linux -- Compaq and IBM are your only vendors of
> choice. They both sell both hardware and software as well as support in
> the linux space aimed directly at Enterprise Computing.
> (www.compaq.com/linux), (www.ibm.com/linux).
Only on their own hardware, I believe.
> Since you already have an RS/6000 an "upgrade" to Linux on RS/6000
> should get you some kind of "trade in" deal from IBM.
It might. I'm thinking that the new RS/6000 would come with AIX 5.x, which
is 64 bit already. Not sure what version of Linux IBM sells the RS/6000.
Actually, I've been told that AIX is free these days.
Thanks.
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