[rescue] Sunburst

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:32:28PM -0700, James C wrote:

> A 440 MHz Sparc is _far_ superior to any 500 MHz PC. I bet you could  
> pull off gcc+gdb compiles and emacs editing on any `modern' x86  
> workstation.

I spend a lot of time doing just that.

Still, it isn't difficult to bring a C2D running Linux (2.3.31) to its
knees, and alas I spend a lot of time waiting for it to get through that
as well.