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To: QwikSand who wrote (40206)	1/8/2001 5:34:14 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

The point is you don't realise how the massive scale of the IA 32 market allows cutting edge technology into boxes costing a few hundred dollars. You seem to think that they are some kind of cheap rubbish. You described the serverworks chipsets as similar to the low end chipsets and implied that the majority of intel architecture PC's have rubbishy taiwanese chipsets. Truth is that Intel chipsets account for about half of the PC's in the world. Truth is that even the low end ones are not far off in bandwidth capability from very expensive Sun servers. Truth is that serverworks gives you enhancements like vastly increasing memory bandwidth, even with old EDO and PC66/PC100. They give you 64 bit PCI with throughput of 533 MB/s (not Mb/s). they give you the ability to take out and replace a network card with no loss of network connectivity. They give you the ability to run 3 or 4 SCSI channels through a RAID card with the SCSI data travelling thru the extended PCI bus enabling a pair of RAID cards to be set up as redundant partners (BTW, I was the first person in Europe to set up such a system. It was with 2 3100ES controllers in a Compaq 7000 belonging to one of the world's largest brokerages and yes it runs NT). Trouble with Sun fanatics here is that they assume they have some kind of holy superiority with regards to the spec and capabilities of the hardware. It just isn't true.