[MUD-Dev] OT: Clients

[coder at ibm.net]

On 12/02/98 at 01:01 PM, Vadim Tkachenko <vadimt at 4cs.com> said: >Mike
Sellers wrote:

>> M59 servers run on NT boxes, though the admin software runs on W95.  Were I
>> to do this again (ahem), I'd more likely put the server itself on a
>> high-powered Unix box and make the admin tools W95-accessible.  OTOH, the
>> difference in robustness, scalability, and overall price-performance for,
>> say, high-end Sun servers vs. NT servers is becoming less and less clear as
>> time goes on.

>Sorry, couldn't resist - why don't you just put the Linux on the Intel
>platform and enjoy all benefits of UNIX without a price of a) Sun
>hardware, b) Sun software, c) third-party products, d) product support,
>... z) add yourself.

Poor SMP support, comparitively poor compilers (eg poor standards
compliance got g++), little to no support for high-end hardware (example
high end: 4-way fault tolerant cluster with each node having 32 64bit
CPU's, 64Gig of RAM, etc).  Linux scales, but only at the low end, and
very poorly in the SMP arena.

Conversely, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX AIX and company scale very very nicely
into these domains.

A more interesting if subtle argument would be why (that I know of) are
none of the current commercial offerings using AS/400's, S/390's or other
mainframe technologies for their MUD servers.  In a more than a few ways
they are ideally suited.

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