[rescue] Re: Wanted - Dual (or quad) PPro

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Steve Sandau wrote:

> >>IBM makes some *good* x86 boxes.  The quality of the construction and
> >>the overall system design is really nice.
> >
> >
> > Yeah.  They also tend to have bigger-than-average memory bandwidth,
> > which is nice.
> >
> Funny this should come up. I have a PS/2 server sitting in front of me.
> I don't know about thememory bandwidth, but it is pretty well
> contructed. It's a microchannel setup with the 486/50 CPU on a separate
> board. It has a SCSI controller and a token ring card, 16M of parity
> SIMMs and no drives save the floppy.

These have ridiculously good memory bandwidth.  If it's a tower, it's a
model 95, and if it's a desktop it's a model 90.

> Worth playing with?? What OS?

Absolutely, it is.  You can replace that CPU (I have a Pentium 166 in
mine) if you want something faster, but that's a really nice machine.  I
once ran over a model 95 with my car and it didn't even crash the disks.
You can run DOS, Windows, SCO, NT, Linux, OS/2 or NetBSD (if you have a
supported disksubsystem).  There are more in that list, but those are the
most popular.

Peace...  Sridhar