[rescue] interest in RS/6000 591 systems/parts?

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Loomis, Rip wrote:

> Same-o same-o here...bear, Dave McGuire's in FL, JP's in TX and I'm in
> MD.  You've probably got three takers at least if the RS/6000 boxen are
> a reasonable price with shipping.

And I'm in New York.

> Probably worth posting some ballpark stuff to the list once systems are
> available--that might help flush some other folks out of the woodwork.

Agreed.

> Sridhar (or anyone else) -- please give me a rough equivalent to these
> boxen for regular (non-FP) stuff on the Sun scale, if there is one.
> That might help me convince one other person around here that they
> really need one.  Thanx.

Integer-only, it is the speed of a 150MHz Ross HyperSPARC-based SS20, but
the FP is a *lot* faster.  More like a 300MHz UltraSPARC.

Peace...  Sridhar