Sparc at home

From: Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net>
Date: Fri Jul 13 15:53:53 2001

> > I run a sparc IPX with NetBSD as my firewall. I use the serial console
> > so that I don't have to have a big non-multisync monitor and/or extra
> > keyboard/mouse pair sitting on my desk. The box is plenty fast enough
> > for a firewall and it sits there running quitely month after month, quite
> > happy. It is on a UPS:-)
>
> Ahh, sanity! Bravo! The idea that "every computer must have a
> bitmapped display, a keyboard, and a mouse" that the PeeCee world has
> infected us with is utterly ridiculous.

I think you'll find most people on this list have computers
with only a serial terminal. Other than my main Linux system
and my laptop (and excluding my wife's system and her laptop),
everything else is connected to a terminal server.

I do have a VT525 that's connected to a 19" color monitor.
That makes a great terminal.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Fri Jul 13 2001 - 15:53:53 BST

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