John P. Looney hath declared on Monday the 12 day of January 2004 :-:
> > Curious, is it as expensive as sparc64 and alpha? more expensive
> > even? :)
> More expensive. We specced a box for a customer that needed *lots* of RAM
> recently, and we got a quote for a single CPU HP box for $36,000. Check
> out the HP website. It's a bit mad.
Aye, we were pricing them to get in one or two for testing,
price does come down quite a bit if you drop back to a 1.3GHz chip,
But its still well outside the range of reasonable price/performance.
We have some opterons in, so will see how they fair out...
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thing in the world. He was our Uncle and older brother. He told us we
were special, and we knew he'd be there for us.
A cult leader, right down to the sneakers.
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