[Sunhelp] What should I look for?

[Gregory Leblanc]

I'd prefer to stay as far away from MS products as possible, that's why I
want a Sun.  :)  If I get my ELC repaired, will those computers be powerful
enough so that I can use the ELC as an Xterm?  
	Greg

Gregory Leblanc
Network Admin
Concordia University

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael C. Vergallen [mailto:mvergall at double-barrel.be]
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 8:24 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] What should I look for?


Hallo,

I've got a lot off suns here and for a workstation I would suggest getting
a sparc 10. They are cheap enough nowerdays. I got a SS10 with 128MB Ram
and two SM41's + a 2.1 Gig HD for about 650 USD. this should be more then
enough for a workstation box. As for windows do you mean X-windows or
MSwindows..well X-Windows comes standard with solaris and for MSwindows
you can look softwindows or get a sbus card with a intel proccessor on and
the software ( i've seen them go for 200 USD).

Michael
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> Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > Hello there!  I've got two Sun workstations, one is a SPARCstation ELC,
on
> > which the monitor doesn't work, and the other is has a label that says
> > SPARCstation 330, which I haven't been able to find any info on.
Regardless
> > of what either of those two machines can do, they're certainly not
capable
> > of being a good workstation.  By good I mean one that I can run windows
on,
> > along with Netscape, and hopefully GNOME.  Now, my real question...
What
> > would be your recommendations for a SUN workstation if I want it to
perform
> > reasonably well, but can't/don't want to spend a fortune on it.  I say
the
> > Ultra 5 on Sun's website, but I'm not sure if I want to spend two grand
on
> > what will probably be a toy until I can get a good office suite and
> > GroupWare client for it.  Any suggestions?  Thanks,
> >         Greg
> >
> > Gregory Leblanc
> > Network Admin
> > Concordia University
> >
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