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- From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 14:42:53 GMT
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <1ier5dINN2uj@armory.centerline.com>
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- earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:
- >Your Sun-2/120 contains a Motorola MC68010 processor, running at 10 (?) MHz.
-
- >This makes it slower than a snail. The latest operating system available
- >from Sun that supports this system is SunOS 4.0.3, which is now 6 O/S
- >releases behind the current O/S release available for the SPARC-based systems.
- >Welcome to 3+ year old software technology. In addition, it is dreadfully
- >slow, and unless you have gobs of memory, a better choice would be to attempt
- >to find a copy of SunOS 3.5(.2), Sun's last 4.2BSD-based O/S (SunOS 4.0 and
- >releases up to and including SunOS 4.1.3 started to base itself on 4.3BSD.).
- >SunOS 3.5(.2) will run noticably faster on the Sun-2/120.
-
- "Noticably" is something like a factor of two on a 4mb machine. It's
- a lot faster than that on a 1 or 2mb machine since the kernel won't be
- swapping all the time (in fact, SunOS 3.5 didn't swap the kernel
- because back then the kernel was a sane size).
-
- In a previous life I used a Sun-2 on a day-to-day basis. I even tried
- running NeWS on it (bad idea :-). They made pretty good X servers
- although I think you'd have a hard time getting newer X releases to
- run on them.
-
- >Basically, any modern PC will run rings around your old, tired warhorse.
- >Seriously, ditch it and get a 486DX2/66 or 486DX/50-based PC clone system and
- >run 386BSD (4.3BSD++ based) on it instead. Send your Sun-2/120 to a museum ...
-
- They make pretty good tables. I once used one as a stepladder when
- running cables through the ceiling -- the case is *strong*.
-
- jim frost
- jimf@centerline.com
-