Pete's irrational fear of SGI was:[geeks] Religion vs. Politics

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:07:29AM -0700, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> IIRC, the 87 used a MIPS R2K processor.  I Could be wrong, but it seems to
> be about right.  The high-end model 89 board set used a 4-pack of Sun
> SPARC processors running at 40MHz.  The unique feature was the addition of
> 8M of static column RAM, making it a true 0ws system.  The only problem
> was heat, and Tek ended up having to have customer's systems modified with
> a new lid to allow heat to vent.

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Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those things?

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Joshua D. Boyd