[Sunhelp] Sun Sparc 2

[Mike]

patl at Phoenix.Volant.ORG wrote:
> 
> On 25-Aug-00 at 01:05, Mike (tseng_mike at yahoo.com) wrote:
> > I wonder if anyone can give me some information (here or url) on the
> > performance of sun sparc 2. I know its an awfully old machine, but
> > wonder what version of solaris will be runnable or run well on? heres is
> > the full spec
> >
> > > 1 x Sparc 2  with 40mhz cpu, 32 megs of ram, CG3
> > > framebuffer, 3  sbus slots, 1 gig Seagate Hawk disk, floppy. Type 4
> > > keyboard, mouse and pad.
> 

I'm buying the machine to learn about sparc and solaris. More towards 
networking and programming than graphics manipulation. What I would 
like to know is the time it will take to do normal networking task and
maybe small web/dns/ftp server for 3-4 computers. Also is the CDE for 
solaris usable, or is it too slow like running X on 486.

Thanks
Mike


> Solaris 7 was the last version to support the SS2 (and otheer sun4c
> machines.)  2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 are probably all reasonable choices.
> If you aren't tied to Solaris, there is also NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS,
> and Linux.
> 
> Note that the SS2 is -not- an officially supported platform for
> Java.  (It works; but is painfully slow.)  Also, you probably want
> to avoid heavy graphics applications and apps that use large amounts
> of memory.  The SS2 is limited to 64Mb on-board; with the possibility
> of adding another 64Mb on the S-bus.  (It takes up two S-bus slots
> and runs at the slower S-bus speed.)
> 
> You will probably want to add an external disk; and you might
> want to see if you can find a reasonably priced CG6 framebuffer.
> 
> -Pat
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