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Re: off off topic: Unix lives or dies?



On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Amos Shapira wrote:

>Alexandre Khalil wrote:
>>   I am especifically interested in multi-processor boards: our department
>> is buying Sun 2 CPUs boxes but they are very pricey ($20k) even though
>> they are at the bottom of the Sun scale.
>>   Already dual PPro boards are very cheap: $1500 with two 200Mhz/256k.
>> The quads are still too expensive: the lowest I could find was about
>> $7500 -though the CPUs might be 512Ks-.
>>   I am suggesting giving a try at a dual PPro with a large amount of RAM
>> -256/512Megs- to experiment building a CPU farm on the cheap using Linux
>> of course.

>Then would you look at dual-Alpha boards?

  This is exactly what I am looking for: the single CPU 500Mhz boards go
for around or less than $4000, and you (?) say that price are falling
quickly.

  If there are dual boards for around $5-6000 or better quad boards for
around $10-12000, our department would be quick to start building on them
using Linux -we are currently a Solaris shop-.

alex


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