> I "ass.u.me" that means a single-engine machine with the minimum memory > increment and minimum "required" accoutrements. Even at that, it "blows > the doors off" the 5-MIPS P/390 with 128MB for which we paid $50K in > 1996. Heck, if I sell the Harley and a few other "toys", _I_ might be > able to buy one. :-)
True. Still... Under $100K... until you buy disk, and floor space and power. DS6xxx's aren't cheap, and FCP SCSI disk isn't cheap either if you need to include a FCP switch in order to not disrupt operations when you need to cable stuff. A working config comes out to about $185K, compared to < $50K for a pretty good Flex configuration. Also takes about 20 sq ft + rack space for switches and disk. That's about half my machine room. Pretty tough argument to the folks that are looking at a switch from a 1RU Flex-ES box with 3.5TB of disk that requires only two 110v power outlets. Still, the used market for reasonably sized z9BCs should improve drastically now. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
