low-end octane2? (was: Re: [rescue] octane question)

[s at avoidant.org]

Kurt Huhn wrote:

> Sun did A Good Thing(tm) with the sub-$1000 workstations.  But people think
> they're worthless becasue they run at half the speed of Pentiums.  Truth is,
> they're not worthless.  At all.  They're quite nice.  They're *extremely*
> nice.  But people have no idea waht the benefits of 64bit processing are.
> Damn, back to advertising again...



Agreed, but now they need to support decent bloody fscking graphics
adapters that don't cost half what the machine does in the first place.
Hello?!?!


---sambo