[geeks] Surprised

[Andrew Weiss]

What about the Power3's?

Or are they still just too EXpen$ive.

Andrew

On Saturday, April 20, 2002, at 11:03 AM, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:40:09AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
>>
>> Now I'm interested.  What OS will a Power2 run?  What should one look
>> for in these systems?
>
> AIX.  there is no NetBSD port to MCA based RS/6000 boxes, and i'm not 
> sure about
> linux since i'd run AIX before i ran linux.
>
> look for POWER2SC or higher CPU.  a POWER2 or POWER machine would still 
> kick a
> large amount of ass, but prices are low enough that the newer cpu 
> (POWER2 vs
> ....