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

[Ian Norton]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:18:07AM +0100, Jon Masters wrote:
> For what it is worth I currently own 7 SPARCs of various vintage.
> Including 2xIPC, 1xIPX, 1xSS2, 2xSS5, 1xSS20.

i thought i'd just say i have a sparc lx, noone seems to ever mention these :-)

> The SPARC5 is pretty quiet but it has a lot to do with the disks in use.
> Recently I upgraded one of mine to Solaris 9 and had to add a second hard
> disk which is whiney and is going to need replacing when the disk I got
> on ebay yesterday arrives.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> A reasonable machine for fun. The MBUS allows two HyperSPARC or whatever
> to be added but remember that Solaris is only "free" for single CPU.
> Of course I do run Linux on a couple of them but the reason I have them is
> for tinkering and soon installing Amoeba on - which is why I need more.
> 
> > What do you think would be its speed equivalent in the PC world?
> 
> The SS5 compares with a good 486/low Pentium but is much more responsive.
> 
> Jon.
> 
> 
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