[rescue] IBM on ebay

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> I'm getting a 390 for free tomorrow.

You suck. 8-)

Peace...  Sridhar

> >> 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. :)
> >
> >> Old?  4.3.3 will fly on that box.  The 590 is still a system to be
> >> reckoned with.
> >
> > hell yeah, my 591 screams.  i love that machine, can't wait to get it
> > booted
> > again now that i have a FDDI board for it!
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > -brian
> > --
> > "when it absolutely has to be there oh, sometime in the next few weeks"
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