Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:14:29 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Williams <security@tomco.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jeremy Kraft <db@minot.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980120011340.25605B-100000@apollo.tomco.net> In-Reply-To: <19980119145915.52313@lemis.com>
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I remember a day when you couldn't touch a 45mhz sparc5 for <= 20k. Marcus R. Williams, Jr. security@tomco.net ISP Programmer / Engineer On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:59:15 +1030 > From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > To: Jeremy Kraft <db@minot.com> > Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement > > 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 >
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