From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 25 08:08:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA28171 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 May 1996 08:08:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sierra.zyzzyva.com (ppp0.zyzzyva.com [198.183.2.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA28165 for ; Sat, 25 May 1996 08:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zyzzyva.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sierra.zyzzyva.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id KAA24561; Sat, 25 May 1996 10:07:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199605251507.KAA24561@sierra.zyzzyva.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , dennis@etinc.com (Dennis), "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU) In-reply-to: jkh's message of Fri, 24 May 1996 10:44:30 -0700. <8011.832959870@time.cdrom.com> X-uri: http://www.zyzzyva.com/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 10:07:55 -0500 From: Randy Terbush Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan sayz: > If you look at, say, an HP 735 workstation in contrast then the > comparison is both striking and obvious - the HP was designed to work, > the PC was designed to sell. > I must make the following point... I spent the past 4+ years supporting both HP workstations and a "PC" product that I had designed from hand picked components, deployed in the same application. In the past 2 years we had far more (2:1) hardware failures in the HP equipment. It is possible to build a dependable piece of "PC" equipment. You just can't put crap in it, nor allow the customer to compare the final cost to an Acer from BB. -- Randy Terbush Zyzzyva Enterprises randy@zyzzyva.com