john,

John Ruschmeyer <jruschme@comcast.net> wrote:

[...]

> > Well, the fun setting it up shouldn't have lastet any longer than
> > about a few minutes ;)

> That depends... a custom kernel rebuild and some package builds could
> make the fun last for days. :-)

Yes, indeed. Unpacking pkgsrc itself takes it's time ;)

[...]

> > 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?  :-)

I didn't intend to to decoy since I considered it to be common sense
but OK. That's simple:

A "real" Sun has SBUS, builtin SCSI, the Sun KBD/Mouse connector and a
13W3 connector [if|when] a framebuffer card exists.

Actual Suns use USB mouse/kbd, PCI, IDE/ATAPI drives and are simply
overpriced PCs with a SPARC CPU at low frequencies.

cheers,
\end{kryz}

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