[geeks] thoughts.

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Sun, 5 May 2002 jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:

> > Yeah, they got hot.
>
> That hot, that you can not use all this upgrade options together.
> Colling in Sun machines is a nightmare. (IMHO)

I would have to agree.  You have to be real careful with the ambient
temperature of the room.

> > On the plus side, one with dual SuperSPARCs will run damn near forever.
> I think this can be said about any "real" hardware. :-)

Again, I would have to agree.  8-)

> > Actually, name some 10-year-old systems that can still run the current
> > OS provided by the manufacturer, and do it reasonable well to boot.
> SGI Indigo R4k.
> Some RS/6k should do also. 320h? (Sridhar?)

The 320H should still run 5.1, if memory serves, and in any case, it can
run 4.3.3, which is still current.  The 320H is 12 years old, I believe.

Peace...  Sridhar

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