[Gllug] Sun hardware/firewall memory

[Adrian McMenamin]

I suppose this is marginally off topic, but...something to ponder.

The Sparcstation 20 box I bought a few weeks ago for a fiver doesn't
appear to do much better in published benchmarks than a simple pre-mmx
pentium system that would have cost 50 - 75% less than the sparc when it
was manufactured.

So, what is so great about the Sparc that it cost so much more? To be
honest my impression is that it is a better box than, say the Pentium
166 that is my firewall (which probably gets better benchmarks), but
then it does have 192 MB as opposed to the 48 MB on the firewall.

Then, second query: thanks to the end of lifing of a pentium 120 I can
upgrade the firewall/router to 64 MB. Is it worth the hassle?

The firewall/router does nothing these days, except, err route or not
route. It doesn't use 48MB, so what do I get out of 64MB

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