[rescue] SPARCstation 20

[Julius Sridhar]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote:

> Personally, I wouldn't use a Sparc for this.  I'd use a $50 PC and add a $50
> video card and a $10 network card to it.  Add linux.  Stir.  You will have an
> X terminal that rips compared even to modern Sun boxen.

Uhhhh.  No.

> The sun boxes are slow even with their native OS.

They're faster without their native OS.

> I have lots of experience building X terminals with Linux on PC hardware and
> the accelerated video cards on this platform, combined with decent driver
> support, make these things just rip.

I've settled on a choice anyway.  SGI Indigo2 running IRIX.

Peace...  Sridhar