Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:41:53 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? Message-ID: <369FA811.A675DA24@softweyr.com> References: <199901150819.TAA06812@ska.bsn> <369F692C.C3D452C6@softweyr.com> <369F8803.81DB0359@uk.radan.com>
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Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> Wes Peters wrote:
> >
> > I have two desktop machines, a SPARCstation 5 and a PII 266 running
> > FreeBSD. I still prefer the SPARCstation because it has a better
> > keyboard, but prefer FreeBSD to Slowlaris for everything else. Plus,
> > the FreeBSD machine is a LOT faster than the SPARC 5. ;^)
>
> I'll agree with the observation about the keyboard. Sun do a converter
> to allow you to use a PC keyboard with a Sun, shame they don't they do
> one that does the opposite :-(.
>
> FWIW, my K6-233 with FreeBSD 2.2.8 is lot faster than my Sparc10 (SunOS
> 4.1.3_U1), bith with 64MB. Mind you it's not a fair comparison, what was
> a top of the range PC when Sparc 5 & 10 were top Sun workstations?.
> That's the comparison you'd have to make.
My home system is a K6/233, and it's a nice quick little beast too. It's
faster at some things than the PII/266, and slower at others. It also
has a very nice keyboard made by NMB, say 95% as good as the Sun Type 5,
but I can't find a local dealer that stocks them anymore. <Sigh>
> BTW, as you're a Sun and FreeBSD user, do you know if it's possible to
> map the function keys in FreeBSD to perform the functions of L2 - L10
> (don't really need L1 ;-) ) on a Sun Keyboard?
In what? Most window managers will let you bind keystrokes to actions,
and it's certainly easy to do in Emacs. ;^)
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
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