begin quoting Lew Wolfgang as of Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:16:49PM -0800: [snip] > Har! It's worth more than that just as scrap metal! About the > only thing going for it at this time is that it runs Sun FORTRAN. > When the box finally croaks I'm going to replace it with a dual
If you don't abuse it, it /should/ take a really long time to croak. (Unless it's one of those bleeding-edge experiments that Sun does every so often.) > Opteron system sitting here ready to go at a moment's notice. We > haven't paid for Sun hardware maintenance for many years and > it's just a matter of time... I've seen a sparcstation so old and neglected that the power supply case was rusted, the interior was entirely filled/blocked with dust, and so much dust in the vents that it had become part of the plastic. And it still ran. By the time your Sun dies (without help), the Opteron will likely be obsolete.... > BTW, the Opteron is about 10-times faster on a single job than > the SPARC, which is vintage 1996. How about when you have 100 jobs, or 1000? -Stewart "Had twenty megs free swap the other day, and barely noticed" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
