From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Dec 31 05:20:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29225 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 05:20:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fep04-svc.tin.it (mta04-acc.tin.it [212.216.176.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA29218 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 05:20:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paipai@box4.tin.it) Received: from winworkstation ([212.216.234.65]) by fep04-svc.tin.it (InterMail v4.0 201-221-105) with SMTP id <19981231132024.BNEK27753.fep04-svc@winworkstation>; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:20:24 +0100 From: "Paolo Di Francesco" To: Wes Peters , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:24:44 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Read this... In-reply-to: <368A5778.F86A2695@softweyr.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19981231132024.BNEK27753.fep04-svc@winworkstation> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 _ ->B<- All Recycled Bytes Message ... ~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message