Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:24:44 -0000 From: "Paolo Di Francesco" <paipai@tin.it> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... Message-ID: <19981231132024.BNEK27753.fep04-svc@winworkstation> In-Reply-To: <368A5778.F86A2695@softweyr.com>
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> So why not buy an older SPARC, for far less money, and work on that?
> Much of what you learn will be portable to the UltraSPARC system later
> on, and these machines are fantastically reliable.
>
1) We are starting now with the kernel. Maybe in late 1999 we'll have
something working on Ultra. So what will be developed now will be used
in the Y2K. I don't think that to develop on an old sparc is so
exciting. 8)
2) For old sparc there is Linux, but on Ultra there is less support.
3) I don't know anyone who wants to sell his/her old sparc. So it's
easier to buy a new one than and old sparc (ridicolous, but it's the
situation...)
4) If Sun will give us some form of "support" I will develop on Ultra.
Otherwise I will reconsider the "old sparc"....
_Personally_ I think Sun could give us the new architecture for the
"old sparc" price. I don't pretend to have hardware for free, but for a
good price. From their point of view they make a good investment :they
have a new developer working on Ultra/FreeBSD. From my point of view
it's a good investment 'cause I can develop on something new (and use
the new istruction set sparc V9 )
> When Dayna Communications was "assimilated" into the Intel intranet in
> January of this year, they retired their DNS and mail server, which was
> a SPARCstation SLC manufactured in 1990. When it was shutdown, it had
> been up for over 200 days, because it had been neglected since the Intel
> acquisition. Before that, the engineer in charge of it would reboot it
> twice a year, on Dec 24 and July 3, "just to be safe." ;^)
8))
Ciao Ciao
Paolo Di Francesco
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