[rescue] Solaris on a PPC

Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net
Fri Feb 7 12:26:59 CST 2003


On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:02:21AM -0500, Kevin wrote:

> I ran NT 3.5.1 for about 3 years and had very few
> problems.  I did have a few RAS issues but that
> was fixed with SP11 and other than that it was fairly
> solid, at least for my purposes (3DS Max, SpeedRazor,
> Photoshop, email and such). You could actually run many
> of the "new" Win95 apps at the time without having the
> instability of Win95.

I didn't really love NT 3.51.  It was so ugly.  But at the time it did
give something much closer to workstation power for low money to people
who couldn't afford more.  Nice I2s in that time were still 10s of
thousands, and there were affordable graphics cards that could
outperform an Indy.


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