[geeks] Surprised

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> What about the Power3's?

They are still quite expensive, but you should be able to find an RS/6000
43P-260, which is a dual-proc 200MHz POWER3 for a thousand bucks or so.
That would be a pretty sweet machine.

Peace...  Sridhar

> 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
> > ....
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