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From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: Large memory issues on 4-STABLE 
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> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:51:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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> 
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Irvine Short wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the definitive reply!
> 
> You're quite welcome.
> 
> > > > This is relevant to the work we're doing - some of my users actually
> > > > really do need this amount of memory.
> > >
> > > If this is the case then you should consider a 64 bit architecture, like
> > > ia64, sparc64, or amd64 (Opteron).
> >
> > Aah, but at the mo the 32bit systems are way way cheaper...
> 
> Not for long.  Opteron systems are even now quite price-competitive with
> i386, although I don't know the availability for people outside the US.  I
> can go to a local computer shop and buy dual Opteron server boards and
> processors and not pay much more than for a nice Xeon system, and the
> workstation class stuff will be out Real Soon Now.

RSN has already come. Today's Fry's ad in the SJ Mercury lists an
AMD64 3200+ with mobo for about $650. (I don't recall the mobo.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634