OH YEA??? [was: Re: [rescue] Ultra?]

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 02:15:49AM -0400, George Adkins wrote:
> > > In fact, even *typing* the letters I D & E consecutively makes my fingers
> > > bleed and my ears break out in a painful rash.
> > >  </sarcasm>
> >
> > Hehehehe- I'm not a fan of the way sun has handled IDE- IDE is bad enough
> > without having the machine freeze while disk gets accessed. So, yeah- it's
> > annoying that sun didn't do ide "right". 
> Yeah, it *is* annoying that they didn't do it "right".  'Right' would have 
> been to have abandoned the monstrosity before birth.  Workstations are about 
> performance.  There is no place for budget PeeCee drives in a 'Workstation'.

I think they meant the U5/U10 as a replacement for PCs.  I mean, the
U5 was very close to the price point of PCs at the time.  My thought
was that they were giving up on smart terminals, and trying to get
companies to install sun PCs on their desktops instead.
 
-- 
Joshua D. Boyd