On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Greg Earle wrote:

> On Sep 29, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Andy Ball wrote:
>>   GE> ...I just have to laugh reading all these "I've got an
>>     > SS2" or "I've got an IPX" postings, given that bare-
>>     > bones SS20's (with CPU and 64 MB RAM) are going for US
>>     > $19.00 "Buy It Now" prices on eBay ... c'mon, splurge
>>     > a little folks ;)
>> 
>> If a SPARCstation 1 is in good health and fast enough for
>> the task assigned, why waste time and money replacing it?
>
> The only "task assigned" that a SPARCstation 1 is fast enough for
> is testing the acceleration of gravity from the top of a building.
> Let's get serious here ...
>
>> As these things start to age it might make sense to think about
>> a successor, but I'm not in the habit of replacing something
>> just because "It's Old Technology!" and therefore somehow
>> "unfashionable".  Besides, in my experience newer does not
>> automatically mean better.
>
> Replacing an SS1 or an SS2 or an IPX with an SS20 for $100 or
> less is still using "unfashionable old technology", and it's
> most definitely "better".
>
> I re-assert that NetBSD port-SPARC runners are masochists  :-)

 	Definitely most. About a year or two ago I retired all the sun4c
 	boxes I had on the grounds I wanted to be able to run the same
 	'-mcpu=supersparc' binaries on all my sparc boxes.

 	I actually still miss the IPX. That was a really nice little box.
 	Much less fussy about memory than the classic.

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