[rescue] Solaris on a PPC

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 06:21 PM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> I used to get plenty of real work done running 3.51 on a 486/66.  It 
> ran
> many things a lot faster than windows 3.1 or windows 95.  It did swap
> alot, but then, it only had 16 megs of ram, and it didn't seem to be
> swapping anymore than the IPXs with 80mhz powerups and 24 megs of ram
> did.  NT didn't start feeling particularly slow or unreliable until I
> tried NT4 with IE 4 on a P2-266.  That thing swapped constantly despite
> having 128 megs of ram.  I'd say it swapped more than the 486 had.  It
> just never stopped.  It was awefull, and MP3s were unreliable too.
>
> MS has added a lot of stuff to the kernel and on top of the kernel 
> since
> the original NT came out.

   Great...so while the rest of the computing world is moving forward 
(well, except for the possibility of Gnome and KDE) Microsoft is moving 
*backward*.  Big surprise there.

     -Dave

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