From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Jan 18 20:04:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA19790 for sparc-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 20:04:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from saturn.ops.neosoft.com (dbaker@saturn.ops.NeoSoft.COM [206.109.4.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19767 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 20:03:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbaker@saturn.ops.neosoft.com) Received: (from dbaker@localhost) by saturn.ops.neosoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA13474; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:53:24 -0600 (CST) From: Daniel Baker Message-Id: <199801190353.VAA13474@saturn.ops.neosoft.com> Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement In-Reply-To: <34C2D187.7E3F3713@xmission.com> from Wes Peters at "Jan 18, 98 09:07:35 pm" To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:53:24 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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... Daniel -- Daniel Baker -- Network Operations Administrator - NeoSoft, Inc. dbaker@neosoft.com dbaker@neo.net Phone: +1 713 968 5800 Fax: +1 713 968 5801