> Probably a guy like me. Those were fine little boxes > for what the price back then.
In retrospective, considering the U10 hardware, they were outrageously expensive back then. But it was a different time, I was young and "high" on the purple Sun logo. I'm surprised that you'd even consider buying workstation-class hardware which isn't meant to go into a rack. That's just a tremendous waste of precious space, something that's not justifiable even for the most modern desktop system. > Again I say, the Ultra 10 was a quiet machine. But > maybe I'm just deaf. Years of fan noise whirr from a rack full of servers less than a meter away, with fans blowing at full speed because there's no CPU stepping driver in Solaris 10, will do that to one. I should know, since I just described myself (:-/ > Wrong. I'll put the framerate and OpenGL tessalation > rate with gourand > shading from that Creator card up against your $75 > ATI or NVidia card > and see what the truth is. Sorry but I just don't see > the comparison. What good will that graphics test do you when it is time to package Oracle, or compile a whole webstack worth of PHP dependencies? If you have ever tried compiling on an Ultra5 or Ultra10 hardware, you would have learned the new levels of pain and a whole new definition to the age old "watching the paint dry" saying. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
