[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

Jonathan Eisch jeisch at boku.net
Fri May 26 21:21:38 CDT 2000


I guess the question is then, I have a SS5/110 w/128MB ram, my system
runs fine on Solaris 7.  Why do I want to upgrade?

-Jonathan

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:21:37PM -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote:
> > A default installation of 2.6 on a SS20 w/128MB, SM61, and CGsomething is very
> > noticeably snappier than a default installation of 2.8 on a SS20 w/128MB,
> > 2xSM61, and internal 8MB SX framebuffer.  Everything is quicker, login to CDE is
> > about 8 seconds vs 16.
> > KeS
> 
> One reason for that is that the CG<something> is about 2x as fast as the
> internal 24-bit SX framebuffer.
> 
> Bill
> 
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