Subject: Re: What are you using port-sparc for?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/27/2004 12:50:06
On Sep 27, 2004, at 12:19 PM, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 14:54, Chris Amthor wrote:
>>> I'm curious what others are using it for on this hardware...
>>
>> Well, an SS20 is one of the fastest "real" Suns ever built.
>
> Okay, I'll bite... what makes it a "real" Sun as opposed to what else?
> :-)

Having an SBus.  Having SCSI and not IDE.  Having a non-crappy case.
Basically, any Sun produced before the Ultra 5.

	- Greg (who has a 180 MHz Ross HyperSPARC SS20 with 192 MB/9+1 GB
	        and still thinks it's a ridiculously old, slow piece of crap)