[rescue] interest in RS/6000 591 systems/parts?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Mar 6 19:24:59 CST 2003


On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 07:57 PM, jwbirdsa at picarefy.com wrote:
>    I would be but I have the 580 already. Its assignment will primarily
> require I/O balls, not CPU balls. It looks like the 591 doesn't really
> offer anything over the 580 in that regard? If it had dual 
> Microchannels
> that would rock for balancing SSA/SCSI/FDDI/Ethernet activity across 
> busses,
> but it doesn't look like it does.

   Actually, crap...the 591 is in the big pedestal case like a 560, 
right?  If so, I probably won't be able to stomach the shipping charges 
for one of those.

       -Dave

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