> Would someone care to give me an idea of how fast a SPARCstation 10 
> with dual Ross 150 MHz processors and 128 MB RAM is compared to a DEC 
> 3000/400 Alpha with 96 MB RAM, please?

NetBSD sparc hasn't got SMP working, but the Sun should be faster even
with one CPU. And more memory is allways better.

> This machine has a second frame buffer installed.  Can that be used 
> for console messages or another X display, in which case there'd be 
> one large "desktop" spread across the two monitors?

Two desktops (no overlapping windows) with X. Displays named :0.0 and
:0.1.

Harald.