[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Jul 7 17:02:03 CDT 2000


On July 7, Matthew Haas wrote:
> > My first sun box was an IPX, while I knew it was going to lag in performance
> > to many other x86 machines I found it to be quite a pleasure to run. I had
> > this machine with 128 MBs o'ram and OpenBSD 2.5. X was acceptable.
> >
> 
> How did you get 128MEGs of RAM in an IPX?

  Those nifty sbus RAM expansion cards have been hitting the surplus
market en masse during the past year or so.  Aside from the Sun board,
Dataram makes a 64mb one...very nice...

      -Dave McGuire





More information about the rescue mailing list