Sun SPARCstation 2

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Wed Feb 14 14:03:45 2001

> > >Probably pretty close to being on topic. You can run up to either Solaris
> > >2.6 or 7 on it. Max RAM is 64MB, or 96/128MB with special S-Bus and
> > >piggyback cards (32MB each). Uses Narrow SCSI. I'd recommend checking out
> > >OpenBSD or NetBSD for it. It's old and slow so a lightweight OS helps.
> >
> > Are Net and OpenBSD light-weight OSes? Holy smokes!
>
> OpenBSD, no. NetBSD, yes.
>
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> Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu

What's the difference in the "light-weight" area. I tried both and
found performance about the same with NetBSD 1.4.1 and Open 2.7.

Bill


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