Yeah...if you really want high-performance, reliability and a clear upgrade path there's this company called Sun...UE10k anybody? Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Scott Dier wrote: > * Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> [000719 08:08]: > > intel's off the shelf stuff. they use something called "crossbar > > switch" which allows DRAM requests to be interlaced to multiple dimm's at > > a time.. which is really cool. > > Read: Neat name for something that many high-end hardware machines do. > SEE: Many high-end non-x86 sgi machines for instance. > > -- > Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> #nicnac at efnet > http://www.ringworld.org/ finger:dieman at destiny.ringworld.org > > Wait. Watch. Wonder. > -J > > Fight collective stupidity, blackhole cybercreek.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org