[rescue] Perverse Question
Kurt Mosiejczuk
kurt at csh.rit.edu
Sat Jun 14 17:55:11 CDT 2003
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:
> [man, I'm in a "gotta comment on everything" mood tonight...sorry if
> I'm spewing turds]
> While I've turned into quite the Solaris fan in recent years (wake
> the kids, phone the neighbors), I'd never EVER run it on anything
> slower than an Ultra1. With OSs like NetBSD around which is blindingly
> fast on Sun4C and Sun4M machines, there's just very little point. And
> if you need Solaris, an Ultra1 is, what, a $40 affair on eBay?
YOu missed the early part where we were discussing that most of the
OSs don't support the DBRI audio on the LX.
And the only other counterpoint I can see to the BSD argument on sun4m
is if you're doing SMP... which I know NetBSD is working on, but it's
not there yet, is it?
--Kurt
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