[rescue] New Sparc5 170 Rescue Questions

[William Enestvedt]

James Fogg wrote:
>
> Yay, another SS5 may live. With enough ram this box will run
> Solaris 8 (or 9 I would imagine) nicely. In fact, it feels a
> lot like my 170mhz Ultra-1.
>
   Excuse the stoopid question, but does the CPU make this feel like a peppier
system, or is "enough RAM" the big deal?
   I have an SS10 and an SS20 on which I installed Solaris 2.6 because I
didn't think that 8 would provide a (*cough*) "satisfactory user experience."
If each has about 100 MB of real RAM, would 8 run all right on the SS10 for
use as a secondary workstation?
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI