[rescue] Re: Throw another packet on the server...

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 05:23 PM, Paul Weissmann wrote:
>> great DEC/Alpha deals just in the last month.  PA-RISC stuff is still
>> expensive mostly, but there has been a few good deals.
>
> Nah, even RDI PrecisionBooks came down to $150, so PA-RISC isn't
> anymore expensive at all.
>
> You could get a Convex SPP1200 SMP-Cluster w/ 16 PA8000 CPUs for less
> than $1000 here too, so no great deal.
>
> The latter is still a bit steep for my pockets though, but well, this
> used to be called a massively-parallel supercomputer some moons ago
> and now sells for about a decent PC/Mac.

   That's a very respectable machine by today's standards, despite its 
age.  I'd just about kill for one.  You're in the UK, right?

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
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