From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jan 4 19:15:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18236 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from epistolic.cynic.net (epistolic.cynic.net [199.175.137.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA18224 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:15:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjs@cynic.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by epistolic.cynic.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA12633; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:14:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:14:27 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: Wes Peters cc: schmidtw@ms.com, obrien@NUXI.com, Paolo Di Francesco , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... In-Reply-To: <3690FEC9.75088C70@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > 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. When you add the monitor, the sparc becomes a bit more competitive. Old Sun 17" colour monitors with trinitron tubes can be extremely nice to look at, and are a bit cheaper than equivalant-quality 17" monitors for PCs. cjs -- Curt Sampson 604 801 5335 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil. The most widely ported operating system in the world: http://www.netbsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message