[rescue] SPARCstation 1+

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Fri Feb 1 15:07:44 CST 2002


[ On Friday, February 1, 2002 at 09:45:42 (-0500), Julius Sridhar wrote: ]
> Subject: [rescue] SPARCstation 20
>
> Hi.  I am not really familiar with Sun machines.  I'm a DEC and IBM guy.
> I was wondering what would be the minimum single-processor SPARC machine
> that you would use as a single-headed X workstation under NetBSD.  Thanks.

If you're happy with monochrome graphics then a SPARCstation 1 or 1+ is
ideal.  I run one diskless under NetBSD, with 16MB of RAM for many
years, and recently upgraded to 40MB.

Unfortunately the Xsun Xserver in NetBSD-current is extremely flaky.
I'm probably going to have to revert to NetBSD-1.3.2.  That one runs
reliably for weeks on end (and then crashes).

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