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 Message-ID: <19980119145915.52313@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980118222133.10886A-100000@minot.com>; from Jeremy Kraft on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:22:06PM -0600 References: <199801190353.VAA13474@saturn.ops.neosoft.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980118222133.10886A-100000@minot.com>
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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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