[rescue] Movin' on up (long)

[Chris Byrne]

Sridhar,

Would you consider doing a HUGE post on the relative merits and relevant
info of IBM hardware? There's a lot of it coming available recently and a
lot of interest in ti, and you are clearly the best man for the job. Or
maybe an article for one of the many domains Bill runs?

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Sridhar the POWERful
> Sent: 22 April 2002 08:47
> To: Jonathan C. Patschke
> Cc: Sun-Rescue Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Movin' on up (long)
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>
> > I'd consider a multiprocessor RS/6000 (as both they and the Suns have
> > great bang/buck), but I'm just starting to learn AIX, and I'm
> > comfortable with Solaris.  Also, I have a SunPCi (which I may swap out
> > for a SunPCi II, should people start paying me enough for Win32
> > development for it to be justifiable) for Windows development.
>
> Don't bother with a multiprocessor RS/6000.  Get a 397.  They've been seen
> around for about $500 lately with a half a gig of RAM, and it's a single
> processor POWER2SC 160MHz.  This doesn't sound like much, but it is
> roughly the speed of a dual-processor 300MHz UltraSPARC-based system, the
> multiprocessor RS/6000's you'll find at a reasonable price will likely be
> dual-processor PowerPC 604e's, and a single POWER2SC will be faster.  Get
> a pair of GT4xi's and you have yourself a fast system with a small
> footprint and good graphics.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
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