[Gllug] Free PC

[Christian Smith]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Ian Northeast wrote:

>Matthew Thompson wrote:
>
>> Although to keep slightly on topic I have a Sparc 1 I am looking to get
>> rid of. Keyboard, Mouse, 17" monitor, VGA adapter, 2 and 4Gb hard
>> drives. Currently running Solaris 9. 100Mb network adapter. It needs
>> collection from Croydon if you want it.
>
>Do you mean an Ultra1? A SPARC 1 wouldn't have a 100Mb NIC nor would it
>run Solaris 9, and would be unlikely to have a disk even as big as 2GB.
>It would also be a useless piece of junk except to an antique computer
>collector.


I see no reason why a SS1 couldn't take a fast ethernet sbus card, though
whether it could use it effectively is another matter.

And SCSI is SCSI. You could stick a modern U320 disk on the 5MB/s SCSI bus
of a SS1.

That said, a SS1 would run Solaris 9 like a dog, though I believe Solaris
9 would actually still run on it. But running {Net|Open}BSD it could still
be a useful firewall or router.


>
>An Ultra1 is not as useful as it used to be as it won't run Solaris 10,
>which limits its usefulness as a Solaris test machine, but it'll run
>Linux (e.g. Debian) fine and would be a nice little machine for someone
>wanting to play with Linux (or *BSD) on a SPARC.

Who'd want to run SunOS 5.x on anything other than a multi-processor box
anyway? Scalability is nothing on a single CPU.

>
>Regards, Ian
>
>PS no I don't want it, I have 3 SPARCs already:)

If it is a U1 and not a SS1, I'll take it off your hands if no-one else
will:) And I have 4 SPARCs already:)

Christian


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