[rescue] FS: Loaded Sun E3K

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Sat May 22 09:02:28 CDT 2004


On May 21, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:27:13PM -0500, Steve Hatle wrote:
>> Just curious- what's the new machine that's on-deck?
>
> I said that I'd never go to x86, but I'm (temporarily) going to be
> using a Solaris x86 machine for a few months until I pick up a nice
> UltraSPARC-III-based machine later this year.
>
> I've got some Ultra 5s here, but there's no way I'll go back to
> Ultra 5 performance levels after being spoiled by a 6-way E3K.

Why not keep it?  Seriously ... store it for 9 months.  It's tiny 
anyways... this is a machine that is one of my dream computers because 
it is so tiny and powerful.  If I hadn't just recently bought a 
generation 4 Power AS/400, I'd really be considering this.

Andrew
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