[geeks] Sun stuff on auction locally

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

I hate flamewars, but I will say that I thought the 630MP was a physically
larger machine and I was confusing it with some other hardware, my mistake.
The rest I will stand on, including the "no modern use" claim. They are very
usefull for geeks and I would have great fun with one, but I don't see an
aftermarket for them in the corporate/education world such as is seen
for.... lets say any of the Enterprise series or Ultra series boxen.

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com]
~ Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:54 PM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: RE: [geeks] Sun stuff on auction locally
~ 
~ 
~ On February 12, you wrote:
~ > The 630MP is something I lust after, but it is a VME bus 
~ machine and parts
~ > are fairly hard to find, except on the Sunhelp lists. It 
~ isn't very fast, it
~ 
~   What?  VME and Sbus boards are all over the place.  The Sbus boards
~ are more common, and are almost always a better choice to run in a
~ 4/600 anyway.
~ 
~ > isn't meant to be a workstation
~ 
~   What?  Not only do they make great workstations, many (most?) were
~ sold with frame buffers, and targeted directly at the workstation
~ market as high-performance deskside machines.
~ 
~ > and is large/power hungry.
~ 
~   What?  A 630 is large?  It's barely larger than an ordinary PeeCee
~ tower case, though much heavier due to actual METAL non-taiwanese
~ construction.  And they don't pull that much power...maybe twice that
~ of a big PeeCee.
~ 
~ > uncommon to find companies begging someone to haul them 
~ away for free, as
~ > they have almost no modern use and are expensive to send to 
~ the trash. One
~ 
~   What?  "Almost no modern use"?  Time to pass the crack pipe.
~ 
~ > nice thing about this beast is that it is a multi-processor machine.
~ 
~   Finally something accurate.
~ 
~      -Dave
~ 
~ -- 
~ Dave McGuire
~ St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
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