Sun Blade 100

[Sean]

On 5 Mar 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Sean <picasso@madflower.com> writes:
> 
> > > Sean <picasso@madflower.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Any thoughts on the new Sun Blade 100's? I mean < $1k for a 64-bit
> > > > machine doesnt seem that outrageous. Even though the Ultra Sparc IIe 
> > > > processor, it has 3PCI slots, serial, parallel, USB and Firewire ports,
> > > > and a pretty good graphics cards.
> > Give it a week *lol* It ships with Solaris 8 preinstalled. 
> > 
> > But in short it uses PC133 EC Ram
> > And IDE drives ship as standard. 
> 
> Hmm, not bad.  Might be a reasonable purchase.

It seems reasonable but I was all geared up to get a G4 MP box and get
into SIMD work with the Altivec unit. This really threw me for a loop,
because I really liked my Sun box..