Re: G3 B&W vs 7600

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On May 16, 2008, at 00:33, Al - image hosting services wrote:

> I was just wondering if someone could tell me what is more  
> reliable. Of
> course, if I was going to use the 7600, I would put in a G4  
> accelerator
> card. The 7600 is smaller and that would be great for the  
> datacenter.  I
> can't see why I wouldn't be able to use the ATTO card from the G3.  
> Just
> wondering what everyone would recommend.

Depends what you need. The 7600 uses a 50MHz CPU bus, the G3s are  
faster ( 66MHz or 100MHz ) but that might be sufficiently compensated  
by a big and fast L2 cache.

> I have also looked at the Workgroup Server 7350. That looks like it is
> almost the same system. Of course, I don't have one to compare. Would
> anyone have either of these they would like to sell?

Yeah, the Workgroup Servers were pretty much ordinary Macs with low  
end graphics hardware and occasionally a SCSI card.

have fun
Michael

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