Subject: Re: 5000/240 netboot question
To: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 08/11/1999 21:04:39
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
>>   Oh, and...let me say...NetBSD/pmax on a 5000/240 is impressively zippy!
>
>Time to start dumpster-diving for a 260 upgrade board then - you'll
>roughly double the speed of the machine then...  I really hate to
>think what you're comparing "zippy" against :-)

  Well it easily keeps up with my SS5/110 running NetBSD/sparc.  Considering
the fact that I just bought the machine for ten bucks, I'd consider that zippy
in terms of cost/performance. :-)

  And if /260 boards are showing up in dumpsters where you are, shit, I'm
moving out there! :-)

                        -Dave McGuire