Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: > Depends on the CPU MHz. The 270MHz is roughly equivalent to a PII-266. > No more. Don't expect science fiction ;-) from it. It's disk subsystem > is woeful (slow IDE), its graphics (unless it has a UPA card) is very > slow likewise.
That's a good way to describe it. SUN took a middle of the line PC, and got a SPARC processor to work in it. It still uses the same buses and I/O structure as a PC (slow PCI, IDE, etc). The processor is blazing fast compared to a machine of it's day, but the smaller memory bus slow it down. Think of a porcshe engine in a volkswagon beetle. The engine can spin the wheels, but by time it gets down to moving things it ain't much faster. > > > Can I install linux on it easy as on any other i386 ? > > Yes. It uses a somewhat different boot architecture, but afterwards it > is a nice Linux machine. I give up. Why? What makes it special is that it runs Solaris. Otherwise it's a (by modern standards) a pretty old/slow linux box, where nothing "works right", If you don't want to run solaris on it, sell it and get a PC. Save yourself a lot of trouble for nothing. I'll offer 400 NIS for it, or gladly provide you with a set of Solaris CD's. (without a license to run it, you get that free from SUN's web site). Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd, R.M.P.E House, 10 Hartom St. Har Hotzvim Jerusalem, 91450 Israel Tel: +972-2-5417-356 Cell: +972-55-667-090 Do sysadmins count networked sheep? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
