[rescue] Sun 711

[dave at cca.org]

bigendian at mac.com writes:

>>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?

>You mean intel processors are suited to be somewhere?  Where?

Before they got into that big module format, they made decent
ceramic tiles, so you could cover your bathroom floor in them
nicely.

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