[SunRescue] Woah, a PCI Ultra 1

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:30:01PM -0600, Ron Nguyen wrote:
> Bill Bradford wrote:
> > The Ultra1
> > is SO much better made than the '5.
> Does the Ultra5 have anything going for it besides price?  
> With starting prices at $2000 for new systems, they do seem like 
> a really good deal.

PCI bus, but if you're going to use one for any real hardcore SERIOUS work,
get one of the $60 SCSI cards and use SCSI drives and cdrom.  I've got an
8.4gig IDE drive in my system here, but all I use this box for mostly is
a remote terminal to the sunhelp.org/mrbill.net machine (an U1/140E) and
something to run Netscape and work with GIMP and MySQL on.

I've got an U1/200E at work, and its just about the same speed as the U5/270
(due to the difference in cache sizes), but it *feels* so much more solid.
Of course, the U1 has a Creator3D, while I have a sucky PGX32.

James, why doesent Sun support the Creator in an Ultra5?

Bill

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