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Entry level workstations were readily available and all over universities.
by marshray 9y ago
Entry level workstations were readily available and all over universities.
- rbanffy 9y agoIt's worth noting that even entry-level machines were quite expensive compared to midrange PCs and were more or less in the same price range as high-end machines. If, however, IBM can get me a 32GB single-core/8-thread POWER9 machine for the same price Lenovo can give me a performance-equivalent 4-core/4-tread Xeon, I'll be tempted. Worst case scenario, I'll still run my x86 workloads on my trusty Lenovo and use the POWER9 as a nice X terminal.