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- From: mike@CIS.Prime.COM (Mike Causer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Old SUN question HELP!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.124641.28844@medusa.prime.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 12:46:41 GMT
- Sender: news@medusa.prime.com
- Reply-To: mike@CIS.Prime.COM
- Organization: Computervision R&D Ltd
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- As long as you don't want to run any X window managers, or expect the
- performance of a SparcStation you have got a reasonable standlone or
- networked computing environment. I have one at home used for program
- development (gawk mostly) and learning/experimenting with languages
- (Prolog, Pascal) text editing (letters, magazine articles), spreadsheet
- applications (using `sc') etc. It doesn't go as fast as the Sparc IPC
- that Computervision pays me to use, but CV doesn't provide a fridge
- full of beer to sip during the performance pauses.
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- Technically it uses a Motorola 68010 running some low number of MHz,
- can support up to 4Mb of memory, SCSI connections to a variety of discs
- (roughly 40 to 140 Mb each), SCSI tape (QIC-11 and QIC-24), RS232 ports
- and anything else that fits into a Multibus backplane for which you
- write a driver. Operating systems are based on BSD4.2 with lots of Sun
- additions, libraries etc. Lots of FSF stuff can be built & used on it
- - occasionally after a bit of a struggle with makefiles.
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- Good for lots of things in my view.
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- Mike Causer (mike@cis.prime.com)
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