Re: [TCLUG:19672] VALinux vs Compaq, and OT: statistical inference

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

recently, according to an NT guy (who actualy knew his stuff) I was
talking to, compaq actualy does have some preformance advantages in their
higher end servers, where they use their own memory/bus chipsets, and not
intel's off the shelf stuff.  they use something called "crossbar
switch" which allows DRAM requests to be interlaced to multiple dimm's at
a time.. which is really cool.

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 andy@theasis.com wrote:

> > 
> > > > statistics *never* imply causality, nor guarantee outcomes.
> > >              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >              That's not true              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > 	                                   that is.
> > 
> > I'm not going to argue the point.  Look in any statistics book at your
> > convenience.  What I said is provably correct, so I have no bones to pick
> > about it.~
> 
> Come back and talk to me when you've gone through a stats Ph.D. program. 
> 
> > > I've had poopy experience with Compaqs, but nigh on 2 years ago. 
> > > out of 12 systems delivered, 3 were DOA, one had no CPU in it. 
> > > That's where the problem started.
> > 
> > I have apparently been the exception that proves the rule.  I have a
> > Compaq that works OK, but it's a home desktop sort (Presario?).  Even
> > though it works OK, it has no upgrade path, so that bites.
> 
> That'd be a huge deal for me, but not necessarily for the application that
> started the thread. 
> 
> Never have I seen Compaq to stand out in terms of performance. I've also
> heard too many reports of other quality control problems.
> 
> But I wonder why VALinux is the only one mentioned -- is there an option
> to consider e.g., Dell? This way you can sorta compare apples to apples,
> by taking the same systems and evaluating the vendor's (relatively new)
> Linux support vs. the more established Win32 support.
> 
> Andy
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Phil M
> 
> 
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