25 Jun
1998
25 Jun
'98
8:45 p.m.
The 320H is a decent machine (unlike the 220 dog), but
lacks a ethernet
port. Like most RS/6000s, it has screaming floating point, and can use XGA
(a bit more tube freindly than other workstations).
[Pause while I get up from my desk and go and look at our RS/6000s]
Hey! You're right! Our 320 machines (320E, upgraded from 320 something
else I think, equivalent to 320H) have ethernet on a microchannel card.
That shouldn't be too hard to find...
We've had our 320s for six years or more, our 375 for four or five. We
are thinking of getting something faster but it's hard to match the FP
performance on anything modern. With luck, when (if) we do, I'll get
the old ones. FWIW the fastest FP we found in our sort of price range
was the RS/6000 model 397. The last of the POWER RISC machines, much
faster than the Power PC RS/6000s...
But I fear we're a bit off topic here...
Philip.