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- From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.160435.8281@fripp.ri.cadre.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 16:04:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: fripp.1993Jan6.160435.8281
- References: <1993Jan6.115253.19572@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article 19572@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov, 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.
- >
- >
- >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 ...
- >
-
- I'll volunteer to display it.. :-) Seriously, the machine will actually make
- a decent X terminal. There's some software floating about that brings up the
- machine with the bare minimum to make an X connection to a server. It won't
- be fast, but it's a use for hardware that you might otherwise have collecting
- dust! If you really can't find a use for it, I was semi-serious about taking
- it off your hands....
-
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