[rescue] SS5-170 mobo available

Bryan Gurney arb_npx42 at comcast.net
Sat Dec 31 23:25:28 CST 2005


On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:23:28 -0500, Mike Nicewonger  
<twmaster at twmaster.com> wrote:

> On Dec 31, 2005, at 1:42 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
>> It is a good deal at that price, however, I have had one of these and
>> aside from the coolness factor of having it, I was not terribly
>> impressed with its performance in production.  Could have been due to
>> running OpenBSD on it however, as perhaps it was not tuned for this
>> chip.
>
> OBSD runs great on that machine (Turbo Sparc 170) I have an SS-170
> clone that runs OBSD and has been in production on my network for 4+
> years.
>
> --
> Mike N
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What was it doing?  I'm serious; aside from my Ultra 5 and Ultra 2, I have  
an SS5 110 with 256 MB of RAM and an 18 GB hard drive.



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