[SunRescue] Help IDing a CPU module

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 08:18:38PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> Here's another idea: why not keep the SM51's for your 4/600 boards and
> sell the SM100's?  A single SM51 in each box will be roughly the same
> speed at all four CPU's with a pair of SM100's, and will be 4x faster for
> single-threaded apps.  There seem to be plenty of idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H
> enthusiastic buyers on Ebay who are paying absurd prices for them,
> especially in pairs.  With what I've seen, a set of four could very well
> land you enough money for a barebones Ultra 1 or piles of RAM.
> -James

Actually, I'm probably going to be sending the SM51s back to Fred @
Data Instruments; he sent them along with a bunch of SM100s and I think
they were sent by mistake (as I was only expecting SM100s).

As for performance, I dont really *care* about performance for the 4/630
or 4/670; I've got an UltraSPARC 1/200E/256mb/Creator3D on my desk if I 
need performance. 8-)  The 4/6x0 machines are simply for "woah, cool"
factor, and to see if I can get Linux up and running on quad SM100s.
The two boxes wont be run full-time *ever*; I cant afford the power bill! 8-)

(man, I *love* the look of hte 4/6x0 machines tho...)

Bill

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