William, I did a review for the IBM Intellistation 185 express workstation which is comparable to some of the recent specs and "speculations" on the rumored Genesi ODW Pegasos 3 platforms.
-------------------- IBM IntelliStation POWER 185 Express http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/intellistation/power/185/index.html Standard configurations Microprocessors One or two 2.5 GHz PowerPC 970 processors with AltiVec vector extensions Level 2 (L2) cache 1MB per processor RAM (memory) 512MB to 8GB of 333 MHz DDR SDRAM; ECC Internal disk storage Up to 0.9TB Ultra320 SCSI Internal SCSI disk bays Three (10K rpm disks) Media bays Two half-high Expansion slots Four PCI-X: 2?64-bit 133 MHz; 2?64-bit 100 MHz; One PCI: 32-bit 33 MHz Standard features I/O ports Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps controller Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (internal and external) Four USB ports (two front and two rear) Two serial ports ----------------- This machine is helpful for the SMP, 8GB memory, kmdb related work. ~ Ken This message posted from opensolaris.org