29 May
2013
29 May
'13
8:35 p.m.
On 29/05/13 10:11 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 05/29/2013 08:04 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
An SS1 would be enough for DNS. Heck, you probably wouldn't even notice
if it were a Sun 3 or a MicroVAX. But the power bill.... :(
I've been working on getting shelving
installed in our Garage, and as a
result, I've been digging back to some systems that have been buried.
Right now I'm moving a bunch of Sun hardware and it hit me. What good
are old UNIX systems? I'm curious, what are people using things like
Sparc 2's through 20's for? Or even Ultra 60's and older?
Pretty much anything they did when they were new, with the exception of
web browsing.
I myself am not running any anymore, as my priorities have shifted a
bit; I'm running modern UNIX machines. But I'd not hesitate to bring up,
say, a DNS server (even a large one) on something like a SPARCstation-20
or an Ultra60. They're dependable, I know them very well, and I know I
can rely on them.
I will give these machines homes if they show up here. (I have lots of
space, and a love for the hardware)
Yep they are great. And can run quite recent (current?) NetBSD, and even
Linux, for example.
--Toby
Part of the
problem I'm looking at is that you can get something like a Raspberry Pi
that will cost a fraction of what a Sun system costs to run.
<snip>.
-Dave