[geeks] Has Sun Learned from SGI's Mistakes?

Kris Kirby kris at catonic.net
Fri Feb 8 00:38:53 CST 2002


On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   They started around $1700 if memory serves, now they can be had for
> a couple hundred at most.  They're really nice machines, and
> reasonably zippy too.  I ported the SkyCache service adapter code to
> one of those during the beta test.

I need to find one of those satellite services that will send me hardware
and *give* me a multicast news feed. Too bad I don't work with an ISP
anymore so I can justify such to them.

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