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- From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: clusters, etc.
- Summary: No rag top, but power windows should go...
- Keywords: server
- Message-ID: <43380@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 14:18:23 GMT
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- In article <1isg51INNek4@hpsdlx.sdd.hp.com> allyn@sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin) writes:
- >> I sure wish HP would offer the 700 series machines with the option
- >> to delete the graphics top.
- >surprise! we do. we currently offer 720, 730 and 750 "server" configurations.
- >these machines don't have a graphics top, and come with a dat drive
- >and a cd-rom drive. they also have beefed-up ram and disk drives in
- >the default configuration.
-
- DAT drive, more RAM, cd-rom? Bleech! Excess cost! The second and
- more unit would be in a cluster with a small local disk farm. Ya
- don't need all that expensive stuff in a cluster node. What do file
- servers need with RAM?
-
- In any event, things change very quickly (since my last HP catalog).
- Perhaps the ordering information could be put on the nice HP-UX9
- support CDs we keep getting? At least we would have a use for HP-UX
- 9 CDs while running 8.07, waiting, waiting, waiting......
-
- Tony Burzio
- Arete Associates
- San Diego, CA
-