[SunRescue] What should I look for?

Martin Frost martin at dsres.com
Fri May 28 05:23:33 CDT 1999


James Lockwood wrote:

> [Ultra 5]

> If you can get the current academic promo pricing, you can get
> a heck of a deal (360MHz/64mb/8gb for $1795).

This is indeed a great deal, but 64Mb is pushing it, especially
if the machine is used for anything other than a workstation,
or if you run CDE, Netscape, etc. 119Mb of swap *in use* on the
one I'm currently using. Swapping is extraordinarily painful on
those IDE disks they come with as standard.

--m





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