[geeks] What's old is new again...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: wa2egp at att.net
>Date: 2007/08/29 Wed PM 07:10:07 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] What's old is new again...

>> This kind of computer decoration BS really makes me want to punch  
>> something (or someone). Computers are getting like hot-hatchback  
>> cars. Next they'll be customizing the fans with fuel atomizer jets  
>> and pilot lights so they can have flames coming out of them when they  
>> are revving up waiting to start an online game of CounterStrike  
>> Source...
>
>I wonder if those plexiglass PC cases pass the FCC specs for RFI.
> 
>> Can you tell I'm a fan of understated external designs with highly  
>> efficient internal layouts?
>
>Sounds like me when I got my first Sun box, an IPX.  I couldn't 
>believe how they packed that thing. :)

I'd love to see a "new" lunchbox form-factor, with the new Niagra T2 CPU in a small, desktop chassis with a couple hot-swap disk bays (4?)... 64 execution threads (8 threads per core, 8 cores per "chip") - yum.

Lionel