Hi Stuart, On 02/08/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Edd, this will be slightly random, but hope it helps a bit..! > > On 2007/08/02 11:41, Edd Barrett wrote: > > Has anyone experimented with a Sun Blade 1000? > > Not as such, my sparc64 are slower (netra t1), netras are a bit noisy > though, I keep them at a suitable distance (in London - I'm in Devon :-) > (blade 100 look quite reasonable value for a non-server box).
I have both a netra X1 and a blade 100. They are both very slow machines (400MHz and 500MHz). > > > I need a new porting machine and a new desktop, so I thought I might > > kill 2 birds with one stone. > > sparc64 is pretty useful for picking up problems with crappy code. > (byte ordering, LP64, strict alignment) Precisely why I want sparc64's. It found several bus error bugs in the texlive port, which are now upstream thanks to that. > > > Is a dual 900 it quick? > > I call my 1.6GHz i386 slow, especially as I have to run eclipse. > > No SMP yet for sparc64; if it takes half as long to do stuff as > 440MHz netra it would still be pretty damn slow. Doh. > > I mostly work on a fast arch (amd64) to get things going, then > test/fix slower ones (sparc64, arm). Works quite well for me, but > ymmv. mac mini (macppc) is a speed demon by comparison :-) > (it's less interesting from a porting point of view though) This is what I have been doing too. > > > Infact, you cant run java on sparc64 OpenBSD can you? > > grep ONLY_FOR_ARCH /usr/ports/devel/jdk/*/Makefile > -> no Didnt think so. > > > Also does X work in OpenBSD? > > yes, see 'frame buffers' in http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html#hardware > > I don't think this machine is suitable. Never mind and thanks for you help. -- Best Regards Edd --------------------------------------------------- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett
