[rescue] IDing a SGI part number

[Nick]

Heh, if you can get 320s send me one.  they're funky too.  Seriously,
price?
	Nick

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Dec 5, 2003, at 5:49 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> >>> For $12k in 1999, it's probably a 540.  If you don't want it, let me
> >>> have at it.  Those are neat little systems.
> >>
> >>    Oh yeah?  What's neat about them?
> >
> > They're non-PCs based around IA32.  No "BIOS" shit.  No traditional
> > XT/AT chipset.  Linux was ported to them a good while back, but they
> > shipped from SGI running their OEM WindowsNT 4 or the retail Windows
> > 2000.
> >
> > They're not as far-removed from the PC realm as, say, an Itanium
> > system, but they're a good shot at having the best of both worlds:
> > workstation-inspired design and the everything-runs-on-it x86
> > instruction set.
> 
>    Wow...really?  Is the smaller one (320?) as non-PC as this, or only 
> the 540?  I know where to get a SHITLOAD of 320s.
> 
>        -Dave
> 
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> Dave McGuire                      "My tummy hurts now, but my soul
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