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Re: HOWTO - Choose SUN hardware to replace PC/Intel hardware

To: Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@snew.com>
Subject: Re: HOWTO - Choose SUN hardware to replace PC/Intel hardware
From: Aaron Jackson <jackson@negril.msrce.howard.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 19:14:39 -0400
Cc: ptiJo <ptiJo@noos.fr>, misc@openbsd.org
References: <20020529235416.059b6d4b.ptiJo@noos.fr> <20020602124444.H19359@snew.com>
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Quoting Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@snew.com>:

> Um, Sun tends to cost MUCH MUCH more than Intel hardware for
> Single CPU machines.  The exception is the 500MHz Netra X1 (with only
> 128MB RAM) will cost around US$1000 here.  No slots, no RAID, slow IDE
> drives, expensive RAM.  A more useful Netra T1 will cost around $3000+
> with a little bit more.

Not necessarily true.  I found and bought T1s from ebay (440 MHz with 1GB ram 2 18GB SCSI drives) for under $1000.

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