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- From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 16:10:24 GMT
- References: <rcaldwel.726296968@ponder> <1993Jan6.115253.19572@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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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.
-
- Not quite. There are also 4MB memory boards available. So it is possible
- to create a machine with a maximum of 7MB of RAM (one 4MB board and three
- 1MB boards). We have one such machine running here. (And other with 6MB).
-
- ...
- >This makes it slower than a snail. The latest operating system available
-
- Well, one of our 2/120s are acting as an X11R5 terminal, which it does
- quite well. It's not the fastest around, but it is atleast usable. And
- it runs SunOS 4.0.3.
-
- ...
- >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 ..
-
- Nah. Send it to us instead. But seriously. I would use it as an X terminal
- connected to a 486 running Linux if I had the choice. Not many PCs around
- with a 1150x900 resolution screen...
-
- /Peter
- --
- Peter Eriksson pen@lysator.liu.se
- Lysator Academic Computer Society ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
- University of Linkoping, Sweden I'm still bored. Flame me again.
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