From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (970903.SGI.8.8.7/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id KAA593124 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 10:33:10 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id KAA06311 for linux-list; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 10:30:12 -0800 Received: from dataserv.detroit.sgi.com (dataserv.detroit.sgi.com [169.238.128.2]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA06306 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 10:30:10 -0800 Received: from detroit.sgi.com by dataserv.detroit.sgi.com via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/930416.SGI) id NAA26291; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 13:29:42 -0500 Message-ID: <348AEA56.46590434@detroit.sgi.com> Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 13:26:30 -0500 From: Eric Kimminau Reply-To: eak@detroit.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chad Campbell CC: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: M$ 's strategy against Linux: nightmare scenario References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Chad Campbell wrote: > > > Bid price 64MB ram, 2GB disk, 19-20" monitor, R4k - $500.00 > If it'll run Linux, I'll give that much too, maybe a little more. That > bid seems real low to me though, so if it was a joke, I'll be a stupid > little undergrad now and go sit in my corner. :) > > Chad It won't run Linux yet, but an R4k will run IRIX 6.5 when its released, and is therefore, still a useful system. If its an R3k, it isn't worth that much unless you want the monitor (which is probably 80% of that bid) -- Eric Kimminau System Engineer eak@detroit.sgi.com Silicon Graphics, Inc Vox:(810) 848-4455 39001 West 12mile Road Fax:(810)848-5600 Farmington, MI 48331-2903 "I speak my mind and no one else's." http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/perl-rsa-sig.html -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- http://bs.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=Eric+A.+Kimminau&fingerprint=on