[rescue] WTB: SGI

[Dave McGuire]

  Mmmmm, five hundred and twelve SMEGMABYTES!!  Muahahaahha!!!!

        -Dave McGuire

On June 19, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> I picked up a 195mhz SI 512meg 2x4gig shipped for 1250$. <grin>
> =09Nick
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> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Bj=F6rn Ramqvist wrote:
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> > Dave McGuire wrote:
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> > >   And octanes...Nick is absolutely right, but you have to spend w=
ell
> > > over $2500 to get an Octane with anywhere near the performance of=
 an
> > > Indigo2 MaxImpact which can be had for $800.
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> > >   The only advantage for the octane in that case is expandability=
 to
> > > multiple CPUs and availability of higher-end CPUs than R10Ks (pre=
tty
> > > high-end to start with)...
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> > I'd recommend the Octane wherever you need the serious I/O these
> > machines perform. It's just... yummy. :-)
> > Seriously, Octanes (lower-end Solid Impact, 175/195MHz R10k) _can_ =
be
> > found as low as $1600. Only 256MB RAM, but that's definitly doable =
if
> > you don't do serious math works on it. If you don't mind any
> > texturememory, SI (Solid Impact) will do just great.
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> > The only real downside on those wonderful beasts are the noiselevel=
. Our
> > engineers at work are moaning every time I go by and check the mach=
ines.
> > They do tend to make even more noise than the I^2...
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> > /Bjorn
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