[rescue] Sun Systems need to go away

[Peter Stokes]

Hi Lionel

Ah, I understand.

Thanks

Peter




On 27 Feb 2014, at 14:09, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

> When the great consolidation occurs, the V240 will be the lone SPARC in the
> room, and I'd like to be able to put a head on it since when I run it, it
will
> primarily be as a desktop, not a server, and I'd like to be able to run it
> without needing a second machine to act as terminal/xterminal.
>
> For production use, I'm with you - the framebuffer doesn't make sense...
>
> Lionel
>
>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 7:40 AM, Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lionel
>>
>> Why the frame buffer? Never really understood why folk install them on
this
>> kind of system, especially with the ALOM port.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 27 Feb 2014, at 13:33, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think when all is said and done, my V240 will be the only Sun/SPARC
>> system
>>> in my collection - it is well-equipped (Dual CPUs, 8 Gigs RAM and 4x 146
>> Gig
>>> SCSI drives) and it came with it's rack rails.
>>>
>>> I paid a little bit of money for it a couple years ago ($125 as described
>>> above), and 'invested' in a DVD drive upgrade and a yet-to-be-installed
>>> framebuffer.
>>>
>>> Lionel
>>>
>>>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 2:20 AM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Personally, I think the V240s are much nicer.  All the power of a V210,
>> but
>>> without as much noise.
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