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- From: wilko@russia.idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
- Message-ID: <wilko.726396261@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 08:44:21 GMT
- References: <rcaldwel.726296968@ponder> <1993Jan6.115253.19572@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1ier5dINN2uj@armory.centerline.com>
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- jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost) writes:
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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.
- >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.
-
- I have seen several of them running X11R5 with no problems. And the
- speed of X is even workable (OK, it's no Sparc..)
-
- >They make pretty good tables. I once used one as a stepladder when
- >running cables through the ceiling -- the case is *strong*.
-
- But beware, they have wheels ;-)
-
- Wilko
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