[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[Ken Hansen]

Well, to start with, you *probably* have 48 Megs RAM - I could
not imagine stuffing all that other hardware in a machine with
less RAM than that...

As for speed - think SCSI-based 386 class performance - usable
as an X Term, OK for low-end programming, but avoid large
programs and try and use text-based software as much as
possible.

The Weitek chip you see is *not* the speed upgrade chip, IPCs
could not take such an upgrade (*unless* the motherboard was
swapped with an IPX, but the RAM would be 72 pin, not 30 pin).

The two monitors could allow for a very flexible dual-head system,
but I am not sure of the built-in BW3 card driving a color monitor
(no exp. with them)...

This could be a fun *little* web server for in-home use, small one
or two person file server, or a desktop toy. To put any *real*
workload on an IPC would point out the slow speed of the machine.
(To compile a new kernel on an IPC will take an exceptionally long
time, IIRC).

Enjoy it is a toy/novelty and you will be fine - expect real speed
from it and you will be let down quite quickly. The IPC is the
slowest of the *modern* SPARC system...

HTH,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "chris Gnther" <madram at video.de>
To: "MailingList SUN Help" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:16 AM
Subject: [SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC


> Hi all,
>
> some of you propably do know me and my "little" problem with my SUN IPC.
> Now - after 6 weeks of consequentely trying to get it work and failling
> miserably - I come to a point where I'd like to know what exactly I could
> do with it would ever get it to work.
>
> So my question is:
>
>     How fast or strong is a SUN IPC?
>
> My configuration is as follows:
> - SUN IPC with WEITEK-Chip
> - all 12 RAM Banks filled (still don't know how much RAM this is)
> - 2GB IBM HDD
> - a second Framebuffer card
> - an ISDN-card
> - and two 16" SUN-Monitors
>
> Can anyone tell me what exactly I can do with it.
>
> To give you a point on what I normally do with my PC running SOL8:
> - writing with LaTeX2e
> - Database-Developing with mySQL (runs on my Server)
> - C and C++ programming
>
>
>     thanks in advance,
>
>         chris
>
> +---------------------------------+
> |             chris               |
> | ------------------------------- |
> |  database design & programming  |
> |   agentur fiedler / video.de    |
> |                                 |
> |                 madram at video.de |
> +---------------------------------+