[rescue] What would you pay for a Type 5 keyboard?

[Dave McGuire]

On 6/13/21 4:01 PM, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
>> When I attended an SMCC training course in Reading, Q1 1998, in the
>> Sun offices they were using a fleet of SPARCclassic and LX machines as
>> door-stops. Actual door-stops. I was distrought.
> 
> Running then-current Solaris, they were better for little more.B  Editing
> papers (using nothing more than vi and LaTeX or roff) was an exercise in
> patience--although still less frustrating than trying to accomplish the
> same with Cygwin.B  The bloat of a Solaris 2.6 installation was more than
> the little lunchboxes could handle for interactive use.B  Solaris 7 was a
> lot better, but still required significant pruning so as not to be
> constantly paging.
> 
> Running Red Hat Linux, they were far more useful--at least, between
> OOPSes.B  I got more use out of the LX running it for file-serving and
> background tasks than I ever did as a workstation, but I doubt SMCC
> would've ever run the same setup I had--with an SGI as the frontend. :)

  ...and running SunOS 4.1.4, the OS they were meant to run, they screamed.

  Anyone trying to run Solaris on such a machine got what they had
coming, honestly.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA