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- From: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
- Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
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- References: <rcaldwel.726296968@ponder> <1993Jan6.115253.19572@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:32:17 GMT
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- earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:
-
- >In article <rcaldwel.726296968@ponder> rcaldwel@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Roger Caldwell) writes:
- >>I have a old Sun Microsystems machine, model number Sun-2/120
- >>
- >>Could some kind soul PLEASE tell me what I have, is it good for anything.
-
- >You have a 2nd-generation Sun Workstation, dating from late 1983. Welcome to
- >9+ year old hardware technology.
-
- [...]
-
- >The memory boards have to be adjacent to the CPU board in slot 1, and they
- >can go in slots 2, 3, 4 and 5, yielding a maximum of 4 Mb.
-
- Actually, you can bring one up to 7 Mb of RAM, using one 4M board, and three
- 1M boards. This is the pure maximum, since there's only 7M of Multibus
- address space set aside for RAM.
-
-
- [...]
-
- >SunOS 3.5(.2) will run noticably faster on the Sun-2/120.
-
- Yeah, brother! even w/7M of RAM, 4.0.3 ran like a slug over glue.
-
- [...]
- >is as a Floor Heater for people in cold climates with inadequate heating
- >systems (-:
-
- A 2/120 w/an external 160M SMD disk kept my den at 70 deg. F all winter.
- My den is unheated. We hist almost 78 when we plugged in a Fujitsu
- Eagle. (Then the wall plate melted, and we had to ditch that idea...)
-
- >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 ...
-
- It will. But, keep the 2/120. They make an adaquate NFS file server,
- as well as a nice training tool. Besides, parts are really cheap now...
-
- -Pete
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