[rescue] Sun 711

[Chris Byrne]

I will be much happier with Apple for high end video editing if they offer
the 4 proc 2 bus 64/66 machine that they keep semi kinda hinting they will
maybe sorta do.

Of course I'd be even happier of I could run a mature stable and supported
version of BeOs on it.

Whats the common factor between these two things?

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Joshua D Boyd
> Sent: 02 May 2002 06:29
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun 711
>
>
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:54:59AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On May 1, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> > > Hey, if you end up managing this let us (or at least me) know.  I'd be
> > > really intrested to hear what kind of intel hardware it'd take to push
> > > that kind of throughput.
> >
> >   What is this "pull" to use PeeCees for this sort of stuff?  Why not
> > just use computers that were designed for this much I/O in the first
> > place?  Does Intel give out some sort of prize that I'm unaware of for
> > plastering their processors into places they're really not suited to
> > be?
>
> Yes, it is called hardware that publicly say it will do what is needed.
> Where as an Octane claims that it has no video modes that will do what is
> needed, even though I believe it can be tweaked to do the job anyway.
>
> Further, this is where the affordable IO hardware lives, although at least
> OS X is here now to deliver some comfort.
>
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> Joshua D. Boyd
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