Sparc at home

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Fri Jul 13 16:25:27 2001

At 04:28 PM 7/13/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On July 13, Tom Uban wrote:
>> 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.
>
> -Dave McGuire

Right! I have a 6-to-1 RS-232 switch with one vt320 on one side,
and on the other sides I have 1) hp380, 2) Decstation 5000/133,
3) Vaxstation 2000, 4) and 5) misc. 68hc11 boards...

Saves a lot of space :-) .



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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Fri Jul 13 2001 - 16:25:27 BST