[geeks] thoughts.

[Mike Nicewonger]

on 5/5/02 2:12 AM, Peter L. Wargo at pwargo at basenji.com wrote:

> On Saturday, May 4, 2002, at 10:55 PM, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> 
>> Hey you!  Stop picking on the SS10!  Yeah you!
> 
> Damn straight!  Not many desktop unix systems 10 years ago with
> quad-proc and 512M capability...  Not to mention all the sbus slots, and
> room for 2 1.6" disks.
> 
> Yeah, they got hot.  But, part of that was the CPU folks making
> hotter-running chips, and some were worse than others.
> 
> On the plus side, one with dual SuperSPARCs will run damn near forever.
> Actually, name some 10-year-old systems that can still run the current
> OS provided by the manufacturer, and do it reasonable well to boot.
> 
> Short list.

Yea what Pete said!

SS10-SX, 2 x SM-81, 384 MB, 2 x 4 GB. Happy machine :)

Mike N