[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC (OT)

[Dave McGuire]

On July 8, Mike Hebel wrote:
> Where the hell did you acquire a Cray from?  I have accumulated a couple of
> SGI R4400's but a Cray?

  Long story.  Got two, actually.  Probably be three soon.

> I'm just amazed - I've never personally seen a Cray let alone got the chance
> to assimilate
> one into my home network.
> 
> Way cool!  Got pictures?

  I'll take some "real" pics soon, but for now here's the "standard
publicity shot" of a machine like mine, a J90:

  http://www.neurotica.com/cray/images/cray-j90.gif

> As for the NetBSD thing I completely agree.  Solaris is great and stable
> _if_ the box is fast enough but for those of us that scrounge lower-end
> Sparc hardware NetBSD/Sparc runs far faster and better than anything else.

  Yep.  Why pay for a big expensive UltraEnterpriseMumbleFrotz when a
$100.00 SPARCstation-2 running *BSD will do the job!!

          -Dave McGuire