[rescue] SPARCstation 20

Steve Pacenka sp17 at cornell.edu
Fri Feb 1 14:30:39 CST 2002


vance at ikickass.org said:
> Hi.  I am not really familiar with Sun machines.  I'm a DEC and IBM
> guy. I was wondering what would be the minimum single-processor SPARC
> machine that you would use as a single-headed X workstation under
> NetBSD.  Thanks. 

What apps?

Color or black&white display?

I'm accustomed to Pentium-class 300-600 MHz machines.  A Sparc 10 with a pair 
of cached 50 MHz processors, 8 bit color, 96M RAM, and Debian Linux 2.2 is 
subjectively okay for apps like Netscape and Xemacs.

-- SP



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