Sun Sparc2 offered to me. What should I check for?

From: healyzh_at_aracnet.com <(healyzh_at_aracnet.com)>
Date: Tue Nov 14 16:38:04 2000

> Pentium III, hell the K6-2/450 here with Solaris 8 beat the
> UltraSparc10 (300MHZ)... (gcc compile and build of an object over NFS with
> the same server).
>
> Amazing that my home toy outperforms the work box.
>
> Both had IDE drives and 128mb memory.
> (Personally, I prefer FreeBSD on the K6... but that wasn't what I was
> testing in the benchmark)...
>
> Bill

Now, you want the really scarry part? Price what it would cost you to get a
nice SparcStation 20 (5 year old system) with say 1 SM71 CPU, 128MB RAM, 4GB
HD, and 8-Bit graphics. Then price what you can get if you go buy *new* PC
hardware that will run Solaris! Shoot, just price a nice SS20 on eBay then
the PC hardware at your local shop, even that can be scarry!

                                Zane
Received on Tue Nov 14 2000 - 16:38:04 GMT