[rescue] Re: SGI Indigo2's

[Mike Nicewonger]

On Monday 01 July 2002 06:24 pm, you wrote:
> On July 1, James Sharp wrote:
> > was there not a revision of the Extreme that's only one board?  I vaguely
> > remember someone once saying that, but I'm not positive.
>
>   I've never seen nor heard of anything like this.  That's not to say
> that it couldn't have existed, though.
>
>   It would have been a good trick; the GE chips that were used on the
> Extreme are *big*.  Four chips per carrier, big square ceramic
> carriers.  Two of those on one board wouldn't have left room for much
> else.
>
Every Extreme I ever saw was 3 boards. What prolly happened was somebody said 
the extreme was kinda like a solid impact, which is one board. Of course that 
would be inaccurate.

Mike N