[Gllug] Re: (OT) Sparcs Was: SGI Machines

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Tue Aug 19 18:00:29 UTC 2003


On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:55:44PM +0100, Mark Hazell wrote:
> I was mainly looking at the SunSparc 20 (don't need the ISDN of the
> SS10) as they seem the smallest of the machines, but I'm not sure what
> services it can really be used for. What do you think would be its speed
> equivalent in the PC world?
> 

I have a SS5 happily running a busy IRC server, afaik if you were to compair an
ss20 to a intel pc, you might be roughly equivalent to a k5-233mhz (give or
take depending on what u want to do)

Ian


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