[SunRescue] help a guy run 2.6 on his 670MP

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu May 17 21:14:07 CDT 2001


  I find them at gov't surplus places.  They also frequently go on
eBay for insanely low prices per MIPS/MFLOPS.

     -Dave McGuire

On May 17, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> Ahh?  impressive preformance eh?  So where can I get one? <Grin>
> 	Nick
> 
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> > On May 17, Sam Creasey wrote:
> > > eesh....  in my opinion, you don't want to.  I spent about 3-4 months
> > > actively working on the linux/parisc port...  My HP 712/80 now runs
> > > nextstep, because the whole process disgusted me *sooo* badly.  (granted,
> > > part of this was the people I was working with...)
> > 
> >   Argh.  I would VERY MUCH like to see some noncommercial OS on PARISC
> > machines.  Those machines are readily available very cheaply, and some
> > of them are VERY impressive in terms of performance.  Especially
> > floating-point performance!
> > 
> >     -Dave McGuire
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