Brian Hechinger's "low end" (was: Re: [geeks] NAT and Filtering on Solaris)

[Kris Kirby]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> "How dare you!  Suh, you have offended my honor.  I demand a dual at
> dawn with your choice of CPU's!"

How Punny.

> Seriously, a U2 could be called "cheap" these days (going for 19K less
> than what I paid for them in 97 or 98), but never "low end" - any system
> that includes the capability for dual US-II CPU's, a 100MHz bus
> (including the video card!), 2G of RAM, and FW SCSI can never be called
> "low end".

Sure it's low end... for a UNIX machine. PCs don't compare to that metric.

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