[geeks] Reflections on an Ultra 60

[Chris Byrne]

Peter,

I'll have to agree with you on the U60 being a pretty beefy box. I had
always wanted one and then once I got it I was even more impressed than I
thought I would be. I still haven't found anything I might want to do with
Sun system at home that it couldn't handle.

My system is similar to yours except I have two 9 giggers and an E3d m3. Now
if I were to use it to do some serious cryptanalysis I'd prolly upgrade to
processor modules with max cache (I think it'll take 4mb modules but not 8
mb modules but I'm not 100% on that, it's 6am here and I've been up since
this time yesterday), and it might be interesting to try the E3dM6, but
other than that it seems to be the ideal machine for me.

Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Peter L. Wargo
Sent: 02 September 2001 06:01
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: [geeks] Reflections on an Ultra 60


Well, believe it or not, the U60 is one of the few Suns I haven't spent
much time with.  (I think it was limited to tuning one into a SunMC server
to test the E10K modules for SunMC.)

Gee, this is a pretty beefy box.  The dual SCSI is nice, as are the two
UPA slots (like the U30). I have a Creator 3D series 3 in slot 0, a C3D
series 2 in slot 1. (Now I need to hook up a monitor to the second
card...)  With 1G of RAM, dual 300's, and a 10K 18G disk, it's pretty
quick.