31 May
2000
31 May
'00
4:51 a.m.
On May 31, Mike Ford wrote:
Newer than a 10, about the same age as a 20 as I recall...
-Dave McGuire
A Sparcstation
10 -- Fantastic. Got to find something like that for
Solaris 8.
Will 8 run on a 10, my wife wants a home system to play with instead of the
E250 she has at the office, and told me she needs at least a 5 (which is a
much newer system than a 10 or 20 right?). 
31 May
31 May
5:58 a.m.
Yeah, a SPARC10 will run Solaris 8, but I wouldn't even consider running CDE
on it. My friend runs a SPARCStation 5 (a newer machine) and says it's
almost unusuable, he's gonna slide back to 2.6. I picked this stuff up from
the University of Michigan Property Disposition, or "The Mad Wolverine's
Computer Emporium" where they price equipment using some sort of roulette
wheel as far as I can tell. Quadra 950? $300. RA-82 Hard drive? $1. They've
got a boatload of older Cisco routers right now (IGS, AGS+) for around $50
if someone is in the area and needs one.
And yes, my girlfriend knows what a SPARCStation 5 is, and can program PERL
in her sleep. Ah, bliss....
Now if she only understood why a quarter of the basement is taken up by
machines almost older than we are...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire(a)neurotica.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: Finds
On May 31, Mike Ford wrote:
> >A Sparcstation 10 -- Fantastic. Got to find something like that for
> >Solaris 8.
>
> Will 8 run on a 10, my wife wants a home system to play with instead of
the
> E250 she has at the office, and told me she needs
at least a 5 (which is
a
much newer
system than a 10 or 20 right?).
Newer than a 10, about the same age as a 20 as I recall...
-Dave McGuire
6:13 a.m.
Yeah, a SPARC10 will run Solaris 8, but I wouldn't
even consider running CDE
on it. My friend runs a SPARCStation 5 (a newer machine) and says it's
almost unusuable, he's gonna slide back to 2.6. I picked this stuff up from
I'm running a Sparc 2 w/96MB of RAM with 2.6 and CDE. It's usable, though
a bit slow to start stuff up. Before I was able to get the extra 32MB in
there though you could forget Netscrape, but with 96MB even Netscape's
happy.
Of course since I have a 60Mhz RS/6000 on my desk at work and refuse to
give it up for a state of the art single or dual processor PC my opinions
of acceptable speed might be a little outside the norm :^)
Remember for most things stability is more important that speed.
Zane
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11:19 a.m.
New subject: Sparc find
Yeah, a SPARC10 will run Solaris 8, but I wouldn't
even consider running CDE
on it. My friend runs a SPARCStation 5 (a newer machine) and says it's
almost unusuable, he's gonna slide back to 2.6. I picked this stuff up from
the University of Michigan Property Disposition, or "The Mad Wolverine's
Computer Emporium" where they price equipment using some sort of roulette
wheel as far as I can tell. Quadra 950? $300. RA-82 Hard drive? $1. They've
got a boatload of older Cisco routers right now (IGS, AGS+) for around $50
if someone is in the area and needs one.
Slick. Too bad it's not local. Rutgers used to do the same stuff, back
in the PDP days.
And yes, my girlfriend knows what a SPARCStation 5 is, and can program PERL
in her sleep. Ah, bliss....
Not bad.
My wife does Unix admin -- but she's not a Perl whiz --but she does a
pretty good webmistress job...
Now if she only understood why a quarter of the
basement is taken up by
machines almost older than we are...
Well, my wife would settle with a quarter of the basement and half the
garage.
The disposal sale -- all items must go will begin shortly.
If I can't find the stuff homes they'll hit the trash.
Bill
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