[rescue] Itanium 2

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Yeah, but the compositing package (where we really need big memory space) we
use (Digital Fusion) is Windows only :-(

shawn

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From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Kurt Huhn
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:45 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Itanium 2


> I think the price on it was about $70k CAN for a quad 800 or something. We
> could use the 64bit memory addressing, so it would be nice to have one,
but
> we haven't heard back from them yet.
>

Jeezus!  That's a lot of money!  I'd rather get some Sun or SGI boxen
for that money - or some "real" IBM boxen (think POWER).
--
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com