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From: Kralizec Craig
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:55

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Barry OGrady <god_free_jones@yahoo.com> writes:

>On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:53:42 -0700 (PDT), hackr_d@yahoo.com wrote:

>>Blade 2000's with the dual 900's and up start around $500.

>>Sun Blade 2000 2x900Mhz 4GB 73GB XVR1000 DVD Kybd/Mouse US $495.00,

>I bought a Compaq DL760 for $200 Australian. It had 8 x 900 Mhz
>and 8 gigs RAM plus 4 x 36.4 gigs 15,000 SCSI hard drives.
>PCI cards installed were 2 x fibre channel, gigabit ethernet, RAID
>controller, and ILO.

There is no realistic way to compare that sort of system to a Sparc machine
though - doesn't matter what anyone says, unless there are ways to use
CPU-independent benchmarks to compare performance of various platforms and
configurations, comparisons are worth nothing. Which is a pity in a way
since it would be good to show up the Wintendo crowd more often. 8-)

Craig.

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From: Kralizec Craig <cd@lios.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Sun Ultra 60 or not?
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:55:16 +0000 (UTC)
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