RE: Upgrading Foxboro Boxes

2001-04-19 Thread Neil Martin
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RE: Upgrading Foxboro Boxes

2001-04-18 Thread Kennedy, Don (USBORAX)
A couple of years ago I asked this question of a Foxboro V.P. at a user's group meeting question/answer session. I was told that this was a 'marketing decision' made by Foxboro, which means: no, you don't really need a new license, that's just the way they have decided to do things. I gather

RE: Upgrading Foxboro Boxes

2001-04-18 Thread Hicks, Gaylon F.
You can pick up a refurbished SUN SPARC 5 180 MHz box for about $1000, or a 110 MHz for about $600. This is the faster 51B box, and the 180 MHz should be pretty snappy. We upgraded from 51A to 51B (old 85 MHz boxes) and saw a big improvement. I don't know exactly what else you need, but make