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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, you wrote:
>
>The x86 server is the top of the Linux line, and the bottom of the UNIX
>line.  Compaq is now offering "UnixWare-NonStop Clusters" that use their
>SMP machines.
>
Not quite.  Linux has been reported to run quite nicely on
UltraSparc and Alpha machines, which puts the x86 "server-class"
machines about in the middle of the Linux boat.

(I can personally vouch for it on the single processor Alphas, it
 is real nice)

-- 
Daniel Taylor   
Unix is a Linux-like operating system.

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