[rescue] misc old Sun resources

[Dave McGuire]

On July 21, Kris Kirby wrote:
> If you've seen my pictures, you've no doubt seen that I have a `tower' of
> IPXs and an IPC. The IPC is a 20MHz Sparc; The IPX is a 40MHz Sparc. Note
> that running sshd on the IPX will create a 1.0 load when (1) user is
> connected.

  Uhh, that's sshd sucking, not the IPX sucking.  I've had twenty users
on an IPX running SunOS4 using DES-encrypted Kerberos5 telnet
connections.  No problem.  They weren't running finite element
analyses or decoding MP3s, but they were reading mail and netnews, and
the performance was just fine.

  The IPX is dog slow by today's standards.  But think about it this
way.  What are we REALLY doing with all that speed today that's so
different from what WILL run nicely on something like an IPX?

  Really, folks.  Computers don't get slower with time.  With the
exception of MP3 playing and video hacking, have our applications for
our machines really changed all that much since, say, the IPX was new?
Note that by "applications" I mean "reading email" or "writing code",
not "playing around with KDE" which can tank all but the very fastest
of systems.

       -Dave

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