Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:40:21 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement Message-ID: <19980120084021.54974@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <34C2D187.7E3F3713@xmission.com>; from Wes Peters on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 09:07:35PM -0700 References: <34C2D187.7E3F3713@xmission.com>
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On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 09:07:35PM -0700, Wes Peters 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. ;^) Great, but do they really use EIDE ;-) Shudder. I'm also astonished about graphics, 256 colors arent that good. Which desktop product uses SCSI components and allows 16 or 24 color depth ? -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD''
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