Hello Jaap,

> I have a question about relative performance of ADF. An academic contact
> planning to use ADF has expressed interest in a relatively old IBM RISC 560
> workstation. However, I am not sure that using this (approximately eight
> years old) workstation will give better performance than a new upmarket
> Pentium III PC (running Linux). I have no personal experience with ADF on
> Pentium. Is there anybody out there who has and can compare the performance
> of the two different systems (just qualitatively will be fine)? I'd be truly
> grateful.

I cannot help you with the IBM RISC 560, but ADF on a recent Pentium PC under
Linux (850 MHz) is somewhat faster than on a SGI O2 from 1998. The factor is
less than two. Otherwise I can say that both ADF1999 and ADF2000 are easily
installed as executables and run without any problems on Pentium PC (I use SuSE
Linux 6.0 and 7.0 on two PC, but RedHat Linux should work, too).

Best regards

Gunnar Jeschke

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