[geeks] Sun Ultra 80 Fast Enough?

[Frank Van Damme]

On Friday 15 August 2003 07:21, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Aaron Finley wrote:
> > Just wondering if the Sun Ultra 80 at 2-4 processor @ 450, expert 3D is
> > fast enough these days for general computing?
>
> *blink*  *blink*

No! You should buy a faster machine and deliver that one to my home. No wait,
you can have my PC instead!

> > I'll be doing some web design, graphic design, web surfing, and other
> > things at college.
>
> I was doing that stuff on an -Indy- not too long ago.  In fact, these
> days I do heavy software development on an Octane/195/SI, and, at work,
> I use an Ultra 10.  I'd just about kill for a quad processor Ultra 80.

Yeah. Since a few days I have an Ultra *5* with a 270 MHz cpu (also
ultrasparcII) 5 and this works pretty well for web stuff. Buildup of the
screen image is a bit slow but I blame the framebuffer for this...

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