Quoth Geoffrey S. Mendelson:
> 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.
I more or less agree with what you say with one caveat - the 167MHz and
267MHz models were slow even then. The 366MHz and above were quite nice.
The problem, as you indeed say, is with the package, not the CPU.
By the way, the Ultra 10 has the very same problems.
> 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",
Here I disagree. Yes, it can run Solaris quite... errr... not quite...
in fact - very slowly. I tried installing 8 on it and it hurried
nowhere. Linux ran on it reasonable, quite faster than Solaris.
As for "nothing works right" - you are quite wrong. Most things work
right, imho. Some things do not, admittedly.
But, I suspect, "right" or "wrong" is not the point here - it is the
whiz-bang-wheeeeeee feeling of having a nice sparc, whether running
Linux, Solaris, NetBSD or FreeBSD.
> 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).
Hey! I wante.... joking. I am looking for a U60 or a U80 at a price I
can afford.
How are things, by the way, Geoff?
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