From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jan 4 09:50:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11311 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:50:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11290 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:50:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id JAA28521; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:47:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id JAA26219; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:47:54 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id KAA29945; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:47:53 -0700 Message-ID: <3690FEC9.75088C70@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 10:47:53 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: schmidtw@ms.com CC: obrien@NUXI.com, Paolo Di Francesco , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... References: <368A5778.F86A2695@softweyr.com> <19981231132024.BNEK27753.fep04-svc@winworkstation> <19981231095614.D15141@nuxi.com> <368BD135.8038D631@softweyr.com> <3690EC31.32BF0172@ms.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wayne Schmidt wrote: > > Umm.. this is just a comment, but why not use an accelerator board > for a sparc10 or 20? Price. These guys at GSTek have stripped SPARCstations starting at $10, and I already have a bunch of RAM that should work in them. For that price, plus $50 or so for a SCSI-2 1Gig drive, you can't go wrong. I'm not planning on obtaining a SPARC system for my 'main' computer, but rather just for the novelty. It'd take a fair amount of SPARC system to beat My K6-2/333 Mhz, especially when you consider it cost about $550 without a monitor. Who knows, I might even get seduced by OpenBSD or NetBSD. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message