[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Dave McGuire]

   We're talking about IBM S/390 G4 and G5 mainframes.  These have 
nothing to do with PowerPC processors, or any other microprocessor for 
that matter.

        -Dave

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 05:54 PM, Joacim Melin wrote:
> The older G4's (around 450Mhz) are really quiet. Then came the 
> Quicksilver models and from the 733Mhz model and upwards there are 
> plenty of noice. I owned the latter model but couldn't stand the > noice.
>
> joacim
>
> "Hello, World" 17 Errors, 31 Warnings...  "
>
> -------------------------------
> who > joacim melin
> how > joacim at melin.org
> where > http://z80.org
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> On Friday, Jan 31, 2003, at 17:15 Europe/Stockholm, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>
>> The G4's I work around aren't too noisy... almost silent.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <vance at neurotica.com>
>> To: "Jochen Kunz" <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
>> Cc: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 7:21 AM
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] Daily Dose of Unix
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I think my best looking machine is my S/390 G5.
>>>>> That's a thing of beauty.
>>>> Hmmm. But it is a bit to big to put it in your living room as an
>>>> eyecatcher.
>>>
>>> Not really too big for the living room.  Definitely too noisy.

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Dave McGuire                 "Rubber duckies *are* important."
St. Petersburg, FL                            -Doc Shipley