[rescue] Just a thought - what would be a good starter SPARC system these days?

[Steve Sandau]

steve price wrote:
> 
> I always put 96mb or 128mb in the LXen that I use, and
> while it is a little slow on the graphics side, once
> it is up and running it is a great teaching tool (as
> well as a pretty darn good low end server).  Two 32mb
> parity 72pin simms and four 16mb parity 72pin simms
> are incredibly cheap these days....top that off with a
> decent speed cdrom and decent size hd and you are set!
> 
> Of course SS5/SS10/SS20 are nice also, as are Ultra1s.
>  With the drop in "relative" worth of these systems,
> they too are becoming much cheaper.
> 
> I don't want to imply that these are the only boxes
> suitable for teaching/learning, but in today's climate
> it seems that everybody wanting to learn *nix
> "demands-wants-needs" graphical tools.  The days of
> learning command line only seem to be waning......

Yeah. It's amazing how often everyone in my office looks at me when the
GUI for Solaris, Oracle, etc. is unavailable. The rest of the time they
laugh at me because I'm a "command-line junkie" as they say...

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