[geeks] (Absolutely nothing to do with the speed of an IPC/SS/1...)

[Ken Hansen]

I didn't - I agreed with a previous poster that X would run slowly, and Bill
jumped up and DECLARED we are all SPOILED.

He overreacted (IMHO), I tried to dismiss it with humor, and got called a
dick.

I have *no* problem with the speed of those machines - I agree with Dave M.
these are great little boxes for making money (Digex), but that doesn't make
X run faster on them (all I ever agreed with - in fact, I mentioned how to
make one of these boxes run better (good framebuffer)).

Are you running X on those SS/1s? That was the point.

As for the 486, well, I'll just let that slide...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster at twmaster.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] E-Bay - 1991 Sun TriGem Slt-100 Sparc Laptop


> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, you wrote:
> > Last I heard, the best use you could come up with for these "gems" was
to
> > make a beowulf cluster/bookshelf.
> >
> Geez dude.
> >
> > > If we are all so spoiled, how many SS/1s do you run at home? Work?
> >
> I have 3 in service pulling sundry jobs like DNS server, mail server etc.
Scoff
> ye not at these noble and fine running machines.
>
> Maybe what we should do is send you a nice 486 PC to use huh?
>
> -Mike N
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