[rescue] Ultra SPARC purchase

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Mar 30 18:20:01 CST 2003


On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 07:17 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:
>>   I wouldn't bother with the Ultra5 or Ultra10...they work, but 
>> they're
>> not what I'd call great machines.  I'd avoid them.  The Ultra30 is *by
>> far* a better choice, and not much more expensive these days.
>
> Hey now, the machine that serves these lists is a lowly
> U5/333 (2M L2 cache) with an 80G IDE drive (with 8M cache).
>
> 8-)

   I didn't say the machine was incapable of performing work, I just 
said they're not very nice machines compared to Sun's other models.

        -Dave

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