[geeks] Surprised

Ryn mattyml at daemons.net
Sat Apr 20 09:38:09 CDT 2002


What is the main difference between the POWER2 and POWER4? I unfortunately
I a newbie to IBM gear.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hechinger" <wonko at arkham.ws>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Surprised


> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:47:13AM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> >
> > Just try explaining POWER4! :-)
>
> only $12K for an entry level POWER4 desktop.  i guess i can sell my truck, i
> don't really need it. ;)
>
> > (I do need to get a POWER2 box at some point. That would do wonders
> > for my postscript render time...)
>
> there are several of us here with POWER2 machines, dave, sridhar and myself
> being three of them.  if you ever want to try to see how much faster they will
> render postscript, let us know, i'm sure we'd be more than happy to help you
> find out (i know i am at least) and if you think it's worth it after testing
> you can always pick up a cheap POWER2 machine on ebay.
>
> -brian
> --
> >  Of course...a PeeCee is useless after it's four months old, remember?
> No, no. It's *valueless* after it's four months old.
> It's useless the moment it's made.                   -- David Fischer --
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