At 1:27 PM -0700 4/14/99, Phil Kos wrote:
>Many years ago, I had a grayscale "dickless" Sun (3? I don't remember for
>sure...) as my desktop terminal. It ran just fine as I recall. (Not that I
>had anything better to compare it to, it was 1987 and we were doing UNIX
>development so existing PC hardware just didn't cut the mustard.) Later on,
>I worked porting X11R3/4 servers using a 386DX20 (8MB) as my development
>machine. This box ran X just fine under ISC UNIX, although it was a bit
>slower running SCO.
I was at the University of Maryland when we received our diskless Sun/2
workstations in 1985 or '86. These were 68010 based boxes running SunOS.
SunOS used up about 4MB of RAM. I think the base workstation configuration
had 8MB of RAM.
Performance-wise, the Sun/2s were a blessing. Prior to getting them, there
would typically be about 20 to 30 users sharing a VAX11/780 and maybe another
20 users sharing a VAX11/750. The raw CPU power of a Sun2 was roughly
equivalent to a VAX11/750 so we were quite thrilled to be able to place a
VAX-class machine in the hands of a single user (swapping and paging over
the Ethernet did hobble them quite a bit, though).
Of course, Sun was thrilled too, as they saw Sun servers gradually replace
the VAXes on campus. :-)
--jc
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