From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jan 4 23:08:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09430 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:08:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09390 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:07:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17449; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 00:07:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3691BA17.74A6F9F4@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 00:07:03 -0700 From: Wes =?iso-8859-1?Q?Peters=D4?==?iso-8859-1?Q?=40=21=EA?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=80?==?iso-8859-1?Q?=EA?==?iso-8859-1?Q?=80=DD=E7?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=805=EA?==?iso-8859-1?Q?=C0?==?iso-8859-1?Q?=EA?= Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Curt Sampson CC: schmidtw@ms.com, obrien@NUXI.com, Paolo Di Francesco , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Curt Sampson wrote: > > 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. You're buying your monitors from the wrong place. My local wholesale shop has a lovely Shamrock 17" with a Diamondtron tube for $295, about what the refurbed OLD Sun 17" monitors are going for. They also carry good quality (but not great) 19" monitors starting at $369. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message