[rescue] Ultra 60 memory

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Sun Mar 9 06:13:25 CDT 2008


On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:04:23AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> > What OS (Solaris in particular) would be fastest on the U60 hardware.
> 
> (Un?)Fortunately, I've never been masochistic enough to try using a 
> SPARC box as a workstation.
> 
> I think the main problem is that you're expecting a 10 year old machine 
> (I just looked it up on SunSolve, and the U60 was introduced in June 
> 1998!) to be fast with modern (bloated) software.... :)

I find the U80 to be quite acceptable for Firefox and a bunch of
terminal windows.  I haven't tried much more than that though.



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