14 Jan
1999
14 Jan
'99
4:52 a.m.
Bill Pechter said...
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|The Sparcstation SLC's are kind of slick. The problem is the memory for
|them costs more than the SLC. They're 72 pin 33 bit wide... You can
|use parity 76pin. The problem is most of them have 16mb in 'em and you
|need at least 32-48 mb (I recommend 64) to run Solaris or SunOS.
0) So don't run the windowing system.
Remember it's about a 486/33 on the SLC speed.
It's still slow.
1) What about Linux? Has it been ported to the SLC
yet?
Yup. So's NetBSD.
2) There was some software to turn old Suns into X
terminals.
Was it ported to the SLCs? While 16MB isn't a lot for an X
terminal, it will work in some situations.
It works... but slow since the frame buffer was less than your
reasonable VGA of today.
-Miles
Bill
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