[Gllug] Sun Sparc station 20

[William Palfreman]

We have a SPARC 20 at work.  It is astoundingly slow - four hours to
compile OpenSSL IIRC, maybe longer.  16Mb Pentium 75s with the F0 0F bug
are much faster than a single CPU SPARC 20.  Its just so infuriating using
such a slow machine.  The novelty of being on a non-pc wears off after
about five minutes.  I like the re-badged Sony Trinitron monitors, but,
well, at the end of the day people bin them for good reason.  If you are
lucky yours might come with a single speed cdrom too. When you see how
slow these machines are the Sun logo looses all its allure.

-- 
W. Palfreman.

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Neil Levine wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:31:16AM +0100, Robert Wood a ecrit: 
> > I have the chance on getting the following for like next to nothing, and
> > I was wondering if this machine is any good as a linux box, and how easy
> > is it gonna be to istall on, (i.e. hardware compatibility, etc)
> > 
> > I used to use the old sparc 5 boxes at university, and I liked them, but
> > they were rather sluggish, is the sparc20 any better?
> 
> I am running Debian on a Sparc 5 as my main home machine. Yeah its not
> a speed demon and the 8bit graphics card means you can kiss goodbye to
> your fancy gradient menu bars in X...but its been ultra reliable and
> runs everything that my i386 boxes can.
> 
> Neil
> 
> 


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