[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[Fleet Captain Druaga]

I know from experience that you can't use two _separate_ frame buffers in an
IPC.  You can however discount the integrated BW frame buffer if you have
another one installed as the SBUS one "should" take over control of the
video. However I have heard of people using more than one SBUS frame buffer
in Sparc 1 and above systems.

As for the speed, I think until recently an IPC was serving www.obsolyte.com
as the main web server so that's a fairly good indicator of something useful
to do with the box.

They're also good for dedicated uses.  For instance I have two running at
separate houses running NetBSD (www.netbsd.org) and bnetd (www.bnetd.org)
and doing fine as standalone Battlenet(tm) servers for local LAN games.
(The bnetd source took me about 2 hours to make and compile on the
IPC(25mhz) compared to about 45 minutes on a faster IPX(40mhz))

They're also good as X-Terminals for logging in remotely to larger systems.

I think in all this time I've only ever had one hooked up to an actual Sun
monitor and that was at work because I don't have any here.

Also, one final note - the Wietek ceramic chip you see openly is _not_ the
CPU.  The actual CPU is a smaller black chip closer to the center of the
board.  The big ceramic chip is the FPU or math co-processor.

Hope this clears some things up.

Sincerely,

Mike Hebel

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> >Behalf Of John F. Davis
> >Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:41 AM
> >To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: Re: [SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 05:16:05PM +0200, chris Gnther wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> some of you propably do know me and my "little" problem with
> >my SUN IPC.
> >> Now - after 6 weeks of consequentely trying to get it work and failling
> >> miserably - I come to a point where I'd like to know what
> >exactly I could
> >> do with it would ever get it to work.
> >>
> >> So my question is:
> >>
> >>     How fast or strong is a SUN IPC?
> >
> >Probably about as fast as a 486DX266.
> >
> >>
> >> My configuration is as follows:
> >> - SUN IPC with WEITEK-Chip
> >> - all 12 RAM Banks filled (still don't know how much RAM this is)
> >> - 2GB IBM HDD
> >> - a second Framebuffer card
> >
> >Maybe that is the problem.  I don't think you can use two frame
> >buffers in these
> >cards at one time.  I tried the same thing using a LX.  Using
> >the built-in frame
> >buffer and an additional sbus version.  I could never get video
> >out of the installed
> >framebuffer when I had the additional one installed.  However, I
> >don't claim to be
> >an expert.  Maybe you could get that kind of setup working.  I
> >never could.
> >
> >
> >> - an ISDN-card
> >> - and two 16" SUN-Monitors
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me what exactly I can do with it.
> >>
> >> To give you a point on what I normally do with my PC running SOL8:
> >> - writing with LaTeX2e
> >> - Database-Developing with mySQL (runs on my Server)
> >> - C and C++ programming
> >>
> >>
> >>     thanks in advance,
> >>
> >>         chris
> >>
> >> +---------------------------------+
> >> |             chris               |
> >> | ------------------------------- |
> >> |  database design & programming  |
> >> |   agentur fiedler / video.de    |
> >> |                                 |
> >> |                 madram at video.de |
> >> +---------------------------------+
> >
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