[BUGS] G5vG4 - discussion from last bugs day

[jonathan michaels]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:51:18PM +1100, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> 
> On 13/01/2009, at 12:21 PM, jonathan michaels wrote:
> 
> >   i'm looking to further my fading knowledge of teh relative  
> > benefits of teh G4
> >   processor over teh newer (and less capable) G5.
> 
> The only benefit I'm aware of is the lower power consumption and heat  
> generation of the G4... The G5 is faster, has some extra bits (64  
> instead of 32) and is generally pretty good.. It's not as good as it  
> could have been, but it's still better than the G4 in terms of  
> performance..

   as i siad in sndrews responce .. it all depends on how one defince'performance'
   and 'better' and a swaag of other suchlike abjectival embelishments.

   i am not disagreeing with you guys (andrew and jerahmy) rather  espousing
   diferent priorities i think is teh terms of engagement.

> >   note: i may have some sun 64bit machines for good homes (read that  
> > to mean
> >   freebsd/bsd developers (ok linux dev types as well). target is  
> > about 6 (512mb
> >   with 2 gb scsi drive, some with cdrom some with more some  
> > essentially complete
> >   motherboards), again if interested please mail me. at this point  
> > there is no
> >   real timetable, i've got some few tons of intel garbage to toss  
> > before i
> >   seriously concider ditching teh sun stuff.
> 
> But FreeBSD developers don't support sun hardware =p

   i have heard teh there is a small but patient group working on teh sun
   ultrasparc seris processors and i think its teh ones theat tehy are targeting
   or at least will be able to amortise/jumpstart from/to that are teh machines
   i'm offloading .. at least thats teh thinking here ..i know its 2/3 am and my
   typing is startint to betray me.

   well thats all fro me today .. hope you is ok jerhmy .. family et al went well
   into chriistmass and teh like .. sorry i'm getting really disoirganised now,
   time for bed i thinfs.

   much kind regards and appreciiontes

   jonathan

   before i completely forget

   as an aside ..  anny one got an old dltIV capapble external tapedrive sitting
   in a closet rotting awau in a data center .. old fashiomed shoe closet denizen
   would also be ok and or a usb based floppy drive (one of thos 72/1,44 mb types,
   have old laptop with need of usb floppy to beoot from .. umm can come to some
   sort of an arangemnet .. prefer to try begging steaking or scrounginging firtst
 
   and for a loan, if you can bring it over a sun scsi dvd player, needed for
   booting sun ultra 60 graphical workstation only scsi dvd's i managed to get
   (plextor really nioce but has teh scsi I 50 wire headers (centronics type
   cable ends) this machine is scsi3 througout needs 80 wire scsi III interface
   headers on dvd cable connectorss

   sorry fro ratty typingd and much good nights .. best wishes all.

   j.

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