Re: NT vs AS/400

["David Bulog" <d2ba@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Both machines are from the same vintage 1996.Even when the Proliant 5000 was
an NT4, SQL Server6.5 box it was still faster.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alexei Pytel <pytel@us.ibm.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: NT vs AS/400


>
> At 01:39 AM 6/2/2001, you wrote:
> >My Compaq Proliant Server quad PPRO 200mhz,512 meg ram
> >Windows2000 AS, SQL Server 2000 leaves my AS/400 Model500,2625 Ethernet
> Card
> >V3R7 128meg ram in the dust for database connections over TCP/IP
>
> Come on - this is not a fair comparison!
> 500 is a pretty old model, one processor vs 4 in your Compaq, 4 times less
> memory than in your Compaq, old slow Ethernet card... (2625 is VERY old
> indeed)
>
>
>     Alexei Pytel
>
>
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