[rescue] fastest Ultra 5 marketed by Sun?

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Sat Jul 21 15:57:16 CDT 2007


On 21 Jul 2007, at 21:34, Robert Darlington wrote:
> So what are the motivations for running something like an Ultra 5 or
> 10 as compared to an Ultra 2?  The most obvious feature of the U2 is
> that they use two CPUs.  What do the U5 and 10 have going for them?
> (Certainly not IDE! -hehehehe).  I remember my old employer was
> tossing the U2 systems not realizing that they were dual CPU systems
> and were keeping the U10 systems.

The nice thing about the U5 is that it's a nice little pizza-box  
machine, and everybody hates them so they're easy enough to rescue.

I wouldn't use one as a server, but they make reasonable X terminals...



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