I found a good use for my SparcStation 2.  I installed blackbox, which
is a nice lightweight WM. (/usr/pkgsrc/x11/blackbox)   Then I export the
display from a faster machine.... performance is quite good.  I really
appreciate the fact that NetBSD's vision doesn't allow too much code bloat
for these older boxes.

Does anyone know if bbpager has been ported?   TIA.

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, matthew green wrote:

>    
>    >By the way, is there any way to upgrade the processor in 
>    >one of these older Sparc boxes?  I was able to add a 2nd processor
>    >to a SPARC 10, but was wondering if there is any upgrade path
>    >for the older boxes.   TIA.
>    
>    You can upgrade the SS2 and the IPX to a Weitek PowerUp chip which runs
>    at 80Mhz. There does seem to be some talk in the mailling list archives
>    back in 1996 about problems with NetBSD after this upgrade. I'm not sure
>    if this was ever "fixed".
> 
> problems?  i have run several powerup's in SS2's and an IPX over the
> years without incident...
>