[rescue] SS10/20 death

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Feb 5 12:39:16 CST 2002


On February 5, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >   The SS1 is not based on the SM100. ;)
> 
> It was the fact that I HAD MY OWN SUN WORKSTATION, I coudl care less which
> cpu it was based on. 8-)

  Oh don't get me wrong...I'd take an SM100-based system over a PeeCee
any day.  Or an SS1 for that matter.

> >   Seriously though, my comments were about the SM100 in particular,
> > definitely not SPARCs in general.  SPARC is a wonderful architecture;
> > elegant and worthy of study and respect.
> 
> And Suns are fine machines, even if you have one that might "suck" compared
> to modern machines.. but, like you've said, just because a machine is no longer
> sold or isnt the fastest one, doesent mean it quits working or functioning.

  Absolutely!

    -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf



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