From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Jan 18 20:43:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22682 for sparc-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 20:43:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22669 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 20:43:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA06886; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:59:15 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA03195; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:59:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980119145915.52313@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:59:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jeremy Kraft Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement References: <199801190353.VAA13474@saturn.ops.neosoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Jeremy Kraft on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:22:06PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:22:06PM -0600, Jeremy Kraft wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Daniel Baker wrote: > >>> I presume all of you on this list got the good news about the new Ultra 5 >>> workstation last week. If not, go visit www.sun.com and learn about their >>> new low-cost workstation. >>> >>> The "loss leader" configuration includes an UltraSPARC IIi processor, 64Mb >>> of SDRAM, a 4.3 Gb disk, graphics controller, 10/100 Mb ethernet, and 3 PCI >>> slots for $2995. This would probably be a good machine to run FreeBSD-SPARC >>> on. ;^) >> >> Not really. I was about to buy one for home before I saw that it's all IDE. >> >> I think it was a really bad move... > > yeah, the all IDE made me a little mad as well ;) What's so bad about IDE? It's a good start. In case you haven't been following, IDE has got a whole lot better in the last few years, and can now often outperform SCSI as long as there aren't too many concurrent I/Os. And the board has PCI slots, so you can add a SCSI controller if you want. Greg