[rescue] Movin' on up (long)

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, James Lockwood wrote:

> >   3) A homegrown box based on a Sun axMP.  All the advantages of the
> 
> No UPA slots.  6 usable PCI slots because 4 are covered by the piggyback
> CPU board.

Well, that's pretty-much useless as a workstation.

> > [2] If I can watch the pixels being painted on the screen in XEmacs or
> >     Netscrape, it grates on my nerves.
> 
> You've never used a GT framebuffer.  After that, I can even tolerate an
> Sbus cg3.  :)

Nope, not used a GT, but I used to have a cg3 on my main desktop.
Generally, though, if the response is going to be that slow, I break out
the vt420 and use that.

> Have you considered a smaller MP box, like a Sun Ultra 60?

I'm looking at the U60 and U80 right now.  They look like they might be
closer to what I'm actually needing, since the might not require as much
power and cooling as the E450.  Are there any real differences between the
U80 and the E450, except for two PSUs, one SCSI channel, a few PCI slots,
and fewer SCSI bays?

--Jonathan