re SGI (was RE: [SunRescue] 5 major manufacturers?)

[nick at snowman.net]

It'll take a r10k 195 with 640 (really odd number there) meg of memory if
memory serves.  It also runs the Max impact gfx, which are Sweet!
	Nick

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On September 27, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > On an almost related note, how much difference in speed is there between the
> > speed of the SunHelp Indys (RS4600 133) that were available (sweet deal),
> > and an Indy equiped with a fast proc, like an R5K 180, or R4600 200?  I'm
> > mostly thinking web-browsing speed, and application startup time, as those
> > are the ones in biggest need of improvement.
> > Assuming that the speed difference isn't huge, where would I need to go to
> > find something that will move roughly twice as fast as the above mentioned
> > Indy?
> 
>   An R5K/180 is very zippy...If memory serves, the R4600 was developed
> as a lower-cost version of the R4400...an R4400/200 is also a nice
> zippy processor.
> 
>   To go upward from there, you'd need to move to an Indigo2 (*NOTHING*
> like the crappy original Indigos) which can go all the way to an
> R10000/180 and possibly higher.
> 
> 
>                 -Dave McGuire
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