[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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