[SunRescue] SS5 model help

[Joshua D. Boyd]

User directory over NFS, everything else local I think.  NIS used. 64megs
of ram. Not ideal, but it should be enough for decent performance running
netscape and a few xterms.  Or even just pine on a console.  The Sparc 10
with dual 40mhz processors even feels more responsive.  It has 96 megs of
ram and it both mounts and servers numerous NFS shares whereas the SS5s
only mount.  The SS10 is certainly slower.  It doesn't compile or crunch
numbers as quickly, but it responds promptly and quickly.  I'd love to see
that machine upgraded but it ain't going to happen.  Every now and then I
like to scare people buy showing them what it can do with 3D graphics
(full screen garoud shading with reasonable numbers of polys smooth as
glass).

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Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Ack.  If the 170s are nearly as good as the low end ultra, then that low
> > end ultra must really suck.  I spend a lot of time on 170s and I find them
> > to be unbelieveable.  I mean, even pine crawls.  Back when my 486 was
> 
> Hmmm... Was there enough RAM?  Lots of NFS/NIS?  I have seen an E10000
> brought to its knees by bad network configs...
> 
> I've also used a number of SS5/170's, and liked them quite a bit.  I have
> one kicking around the house now - with Sol 7 and 128M, it runs great.