From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Jan 5 14:51:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24558 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:51:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24539 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:50:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id OAA10950; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:49:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA00643; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:49:58 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id PAA13295; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:49:56 -0700 Message-ID: <36929714.6873BFF3@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 15:49:56 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Curt Sampson CC: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Curt Sampson wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Wes PetersÔ@!ê ?ê?Ýç ?5êÀê wrote: > > > > 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.... > > You're buying your Suns from the wrong place. :-) A couple of years > ago I picked up *two* IPXs each with 16 MB RAM, 207 MB disk, 17" > colour monitor and type 5 keyboards and mouse pads for Cdn$500 > total (about US$325--hardly more than the price of one of your > monitors). Actually, given that I just bought 3 IPX's for $35 each, along with 3 207 MB disk for $5 each, we're just about on track. ;^) This was from GSTek, http://www.gstek.com. They should be here Saturday or Monday; I'll post how it goes getting them up and running. What are we here in FreeBSD-SPARC preferring as a porting base these days, NetBSD or OpenBSD? I've got a 1.0 GB drive for mine; I'll put the porting system on that and FreeBSD on the 207 until it matures enough to actually boot, then I can swap'em. And I won't have to worry about those pesky Ultra compiler issues, either. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message