[rescue] IBM on ebay

[dave at cca.org]

wonko at 4amlunch.net writes:

>On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:03:17PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
>> 
>> Like hell.  That 66MHz turns in 10.4 specFP95 (that's roughly comparable
>> to a 175MHz mips R10000, a 200MHz UltraSparc or a 350MHz Pentium II).  Int
>> perf is lower but it's still no slouch.

>the POWER CPUs are insane.  god i love them. :)

Damn straight.

>> The biggest downside is that the case is big, bulky and heavy.  Other than
>> that it's a nice system.

>but big and bulky means lots of space for internal disks, as well as a LOT of
>MCA slots.  very very nice.

Really. "Big and heavy" is a positive attribute.

If only they'd run a BSD of some sort...

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