Eero Laurila said:
>  Aahhh.... I saw one today....~~~  what a pleasure ~~~ it was a 4-way
>  979 CPU...  each cpu clocking at 120MHz... (995 cpu's @ 90MHz, 992=60Mhz)...
>  I think it had 256kb of cache memory per CPU and the system was running
>  in a benchmark with 1000 users and 2GB of main memory...  AND IT WAS
>  DAMN FAST MACHINE!!!!  I just love it!  Fits under the table (what about
>  the 50+ spindles...) and was about 2..3 sq ft footprint, probably 2ft high
>  The rumor has it that 2-way beats a 4-way 995 - then again... what do I
>  know... the official introduction of 9x9 family was January 19th.  The
>  beastie I saw was running MR'd 5.0 (push) OS...
 
Er, um, Eero, are you sure you have that introduction date right?  As a VAR
we always get all the sales literature and stuff for new hardware shortly
before it is introduced, and I haven't seen anything official on the 9x9s
yet. Maybe I just haven't been paying attention?
 
G.