[rescue] IBM on ebay

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Wed, 15 May 2002 dave at cca.org 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.

Indeed.

> >> 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.

You didn't know that?

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

That would only take some elbow grease.

Peace...  Sridhar

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