[rescue] Sunburst

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Fri May 21 18:07:26 CDT 2010


On 21 May 2010, at 00:49, Nemo wrote:
> [...] I had a U10 (440 MHz and 1 GiB) running Sol 10 as well as an IBM PC
(~500 MHz and 1 GiB) running SuSE  under my desk.[...] Compilation on the U10
finished long, long before that on the PC.  (I know. I know.  The PC
architecture is crippled, still...)

A PC of that era would have had a scummy 3600RPM ATA-33 disk in it. It's
hardly surprising that anything else would have wiped the floor with it.

Mercifully, ATA is now history on all platforms.



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