On May 31, Greywolf wrote:
> #   About those "stock processors"...are we only talking about "stock"
> # processors?  I don't know anyone who's running an SS10 for historical
> # value...they're just not that old.
> 
> They're ten years+ old this year.
> 
> That's OLD in computer parlance.

  I'm rather familiar with computer parlance, thank you.

  You're saying the SS10 was shipping in 1990?  That doesn't jibe with
my memory of history.

> But I'll tell ya, someone gave me an SS5/170.  I used to run on an IPX.
> Do you *really* think I'd turn it down? :-)

  Oh of course not...the /170 is a very nice machine.  Again, though,
due to much more than just the clock rate.  The ss5/170 uses a different
processor (TurboSPARC, as I'm sure you know) as well as has a 512kb L2
cache...which the /70, /85, and /110 lack.

  Damn shame there weren't more /170s made.  I'd like to get my hands
on a few of them.

              -Dave McGuire