notes on new power mac (was Re: clusters v SMP)

[James Cownie]

> so basically, if you want near-commodity 64b pointers, you're
> screwed.  at least if/until AMD does their hammer series...

Sun would probably disagree. 

A SunBlade 100 workstation with a 500MHz UltraSPARC-IIe, 128MB and a
20GB disk and lists at $950.

http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?cid=60357&parentId=48612

I'm sure it'll run Linux, though (of course) it comes with Solaris
pre-loaded.

-- Jim 

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