[geeks] SGI haul in!

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Jan 21 19:35:29 CST 2002


On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:22:58AM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Geoff Reed wrote:
>>Are R3000's good/useful machines?  if so I might be interested in one bill :)
> If this is your first SGI, or other Real Machine (i.e.: big sun), give
> Dave McG a shout. He can probably drop a few links on you to help convince
> you that old UN*X machines still outperform and outlast commodity PC
> hardware. At the least, he can point you in the right direction for your
> tinanja quest...

And speaking of such, *any* machine is good/useful, it just depends on the
use. 8-)  If I can get a non-irix OS to run on these somehow, one will make
a great home DNS server.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX



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