[rescue] Ultra Enterprise 150, A5000

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> Date: 2004/04/16 Fri PM 03:35:33 GMT
> To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Ultra Enterprise 150, A5000
> 
> On Apr 16, 2004, at 11:00 AM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >>> drive bays.  An Ultra1 is plenty fast enough for most
> >>> off-net server tasks (WWW, DNS, etc), so they can be really
> >>> useful machines.
> >>
> >> I expect they are plenty fast enough for most on-net server
> >> tasks as well.
> >
> > <McGuire_Bait>
> >    Yeah, but can you saturate a T1 with an Ultra 1, serving up
> >    mostly static pages?
> > </McGuire_Bait>
> >
> > Sorry, couldn't resist... ;^)
> 
>    Do you have a problem with my assertion that it's possible to 
> saturate a T-1 with a SPARCstation-2 with serving pages?  Or is
> it amusing for some reason?

Dave, I celebrate your assertion! Everytime there is a question here (actual or rhetorical) questioning the ability of any low-end machines being useful I think of your $EMPLOYER-n story...

Sorry, hope I didn't offend/catch you in a bad mood (It's hard to see your face from my desk in NJ ;^)