--- healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:
> > Ow... that's scary. I am in the process of _finally_ building up this
> > AXP133 "no-name" board...
> Since you're running Sparc's with 64MB, to give you an idea of what I
> consider acceptable performance, I don't consider Solaris 2.6 acceptable in
> 64MB, but it's quite nice in 96MB on my Sparc 2.
I don't consider 64Mb acceptable if I'm running CDE. It's horrible. Things
are sluggish but not painful under OpenWindows. I'd run 96Mb if I could,
but I don't have the Sbus expansion card. I used to use a Sparc 5/110 as
my primary desktop machine at Lucent, and with 256Mb of memory the only
ongoing problem I had was with starting up Netscrape - it took much more
than a minute. Once I was in, things were ducky. I could even run ViCE
at 200% 6502-emulation speed with no problems.
> In the case of OpenBSD I was able to get a Tulip-based 10/100 NIC working
> with no problem in the AS200. I *can not* get one working under OpenVMS, it
> looks like I need a real DE500 to work under OpenVMS.
I bought a real DE500 once, just for this box (not that it runs OpenVMS
due to other driver issues). It never left the show with me; I think I
set down the bag and walked off. Not the first time, but usually I remember
while I'm still in the same aisle.
> On the RAM, I *always* check for used True Parity 72-pin SIMMS when I'm
> anywhere that has used RAM.
Me too. I'm up to five pair of 16Mb and one pair of 4Mb. :-(
> You're lucky. The AS500 requires custom RAM, the only way I'm going to get
> it more memory is by spending about $500 :^(
Ow!
Speaking of custom RAM, I notice that on diagnostics, the IPX detects 33bit
vs 36bit parity SIMMs. Are there any performance differences? I only have
three or four 33bit 16Mb SIMMs. I was just wondering if there were any
benefit to take these to 36bit. I plan to use the IPX as our primary DNS
server at work, so enhanced reliability is a benefit.
-ethan
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Received on Wed Mar 22 2000 - 11:21:29 GMT