[SunRescue] OT: SGI again

[Dave McGuire]

On April 3, Ken Hansen wrote:
> I was infrigued by the boxes, but what put me off was the info at one
> of the sites listed for supporting info (r46000PC based systems do not
> have the omph for any real video use, and these don't come with
> cameras).
> 
> The price is great, the value (for a general *nix box) is good, but this
> machine appears to be one of the underpowered versions of a great
> line of workstations.

  They make great desktop machines...tiny, quiet, low power, low heat
output...and keep in mind that the CPU is on a daughterboard...you can
get R4400 and R5000 modules to beef them up quite a bit.  A 200MHz
R4400 is no slouch!

            -Dave McGuire