Subject: Re: Multia problems
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Eric Sentner <sentner@katana.digex.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/25/1997 15:13:51
References: <9703251953.AA15166@feral.com>
	<199703252006.OAA29887@skorpio3.usask.ca>

I for one haven't had a day's problem with my multia (the 233Mhz
version).. As for speed, well, I work with SunOS 4.1.4 mostly on
sparc5's.. And when it comes to integer math, the multia kicks butt!
ssh-keygen on the sparc takes roughly 15 seconds... on my multia it
takes about 3 seconds.. :)
And as for reliability.. I've had the machine crash maybe once.. and I
think that was due to a power drop.. It just rebooted.  It stays up
for months at a time.

-- Eric


On March 25, Greg Oster wrote:

> mjacob@feral.com writes:
> > 
> > Interesting stories. I've been pretty happy with mine, but I guess I'm
> > the exception.
> 
> Make that two exceptions :-) 
> 
> I've been quite happy with my Multia, and both it's hardware and software 
> (NetBSD, of course) have performed quite well...  (The only thing "special" 
> I've done to mine is to move the internal drive into an external case...)
> 
> It's no real speed demon, but it certainly is faster than my Amiga 3000 
> (68030@25) which was my previous "power machine" :-) 
> 
> Later...
> 
> Greg Oster
> 
> oster@cs.usask.ca
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA
>