[geeks] SunFire or Sun Fire?

[Eric Dittman]

> > I was looking at some of the SunFire 15K systems today and I
> > was wondering if "SunFire" or "Sun Fire" was correct.  The
> > systems and shipping boxes all have the name as one word,
> > but the Sun web site has the name as two words.
> 
> System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4u Sun Fire 6800
> 
> Definitely 2 words.  At a few places it refers to itself as a
> "Fire", which I'm presuming means that it's actually a Sun Fire,
> as opposed to (say) an IBM Fire, if you get my drift.

I guess we'll have to call Sun to get some replacement
panels with a space in the name.  :-)

> > BTW, there are three of the new little SunFire V880 systems
> > that just arrived today and are still in their boxes.  I'd
> > love to have one of them at home.
> 
> Nice machines, but it's a pity they aren't out in 900Mhz configs
> yet.  I'm also not a big fan of the configs they are being sold in
> (I dont want 6x36Gb disks!! I only want two!)

Well, since I didn't have to pay for them I don't mind them
having six drives.  :-)
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Eric Dittman
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