[geeks] E-Bay - 1991 Sun TriGem Slt-100 Sparc Laptop

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 06:43:14PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Why, how much speed would Sun expect from a 25 MHz CPU? ;^)
> Besides, a nice frambuffer can *help* a slow CPU WRT X Windows...
> When the COU is that aprox. speed, my thought is "you can run X, or you can
> run applications, but not both"...
> Ken

YOU ARE ALL SPOILED.

Keep in mind - ten years ago - THIS WAS A HOT-ASS WORKSTATION.

I did PLENTY of "good work" on a 16meg SPARCstation 1, with multiple
200 or 500 meg hard drives, a dual-slot CG6, and an old Hitachi 19".
Running Netscape, FVWM, *and* having other people telnetted in.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX