I'd go with a Linux box myself.

At 15:42 10/13/97 +0100, you wrote:
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>Dear list,
>
>can anyone advise me whether it's worth getting a Sun SPARCstation 1 (on
>offer) to crunch Csound scores/orcs ? From what I've uncovered, it seems to
>be a 20Mhz box with an early SPARC chip - don't know what vintage. The
>price asked is equivalent to that of a 100-120Mhz Pentium/686 Linux box -
>speed is one thing - versatility another. Any advice?
>
>Ash
>
>
>
>-- 
>James Andrews, maths CDO, ext.3977
>
>
Gregory A. McCourt