[geeks] Hardware recommendation for odd project?
Nemo
cym224 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 25 19:41:32 CDT 2017
On 24 April 2017 at 03:02, Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote (in part):
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What would be the lowest power, smallest, and quietest system to use to run up
>> to 64-bit Solaris 9? I need to run an old copy of Sybase for a silly project.
>
> How hefty is the Sybase instance? You could use an Ultra 5/10;
Ultra 10 are very cheap, take IDE drives, but max out at 1 GiB. (The
Ultra 5 takes no more than 312 MiB.) It happily ran Sol 9 for years
compiling variants of gcc (simultaneously) but I have no knowledge of
SyBase. Just watch out for the edge capacitors. Better to leave it
always on.
N.
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