> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:51:26 -0700 (PDT) > From: Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Irvine Short wrote: > > > Thanks for the definitive reply! > > You're quite welcome. > > > > > This is relevant to the work we're doing - some of my users actually > > > > really do need this amount of memory. > > > > > > If this is the case then you should consider a 64 bit architecture, like > > > ia64, sparc64, or amd64 (Opteron). > > > > Aah, but at the mo the 32bit systems are way way cheaper... > > Not for long. Opteron systems are even now quite price-competitive with > i386, although I don't know the availability for people outside the US. I > can go to a local computer shop and buy dual Opteron server boards and > processors and not pay much more than for a nice Xeon system, and the > workstation class stuff will be out Real Soon Now.
RSN has already come. Today's Fry's ad in the SJ Mercury lists an AMD64 3200+ with mobo for about $650. (I don't recall the mobo.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
