e: [rescue] IBM RS/6k 48P

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Al Potter <apotter at spankingnuns.com> wrote:
> Just to prove my point....
> 
> A member of this list, who will remain nameless, emailed me off line
> about this thread and my off hand remark that I had plenty of SM100s
> laying around:
  
> newbie@$domain.dyndns.org said:
> > Well, I'm pretty new to Sun gear, although I'm now truly hooked,
> > but until this thread I don't think I had heard of SM100s before.

Exhibiting curiosity, not a bad thing...

> > So after some Googling it seems they are double-wide MBUS cards
> > with dual SM41s, correct?

Independent research, another good thing...

> > I'm guessing that they must have 1MB cache, since it
> > is an SMP configuration. If you want to get rid of one or more of
> > those SM100s I might be interested, for nothing more than the
> > curiosity factor, and since I have yet to have an S(N)MP machine :)


Heh, you're being to hard on him/her by half, IMHO - they even included
a reference to the on-going SNMP joke...

I think this guy/gal is just looking for some more exp & wants to play
with different hardware... NOTE: If the "newbie" siad they wanted to
really see their SS/10 ROCK by upgrading to SNMP performance, then
there might be a sign of trouble... ;^)

> I was gentle.... and clued him in.  

I hope I was too... ;^)


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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