[geeks] thoughts.

[jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de]

On  4 May, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> Yeah, they got hot. 
That hot, that you can not use all this upgrade options together.
Colling in Sun machines is a nightmare. (IMHO)

> On the plus side, one with dual SuperSPARCs will run damn near forever.  
I think this can be said about any "real" hardware. :-) 

> 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.
SGI Indigo R4k.
Some RS/6k should do also. 320h? (Sridhar?)
The DECstation 5000/200 was "only" single CPU, but could hold 480MB RAM
in 1990. Ultrix 4.5 is still current. ;-) 
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tschuess,
          Jochen

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