On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Dave McGuire 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.

# So I doubt anyone is really
# interested in maintaining "stock" configurations.  Which goes on to
# suggest that many SS10 machines (including three in this house) have
# SM71 or better processors in them.

For the record, some of the last SS5s have 170s in them.

And you're right.  They're not that fast compared with, say, an SS20
with an equivalent processor (largely due to the cache they have on the
processor module).

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? :-)

#                -Dave McGuire



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