* David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org> [2004-09-30 10:29:22]:
> 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.

Yes, I have a soft spot for my little IPX too. I've put enough mods
and upgrades on it now that I really don't want to retire it, so as long
as it crawls along still doing what it does, it's staying.

Matt
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"The way to a man's belief is through confusion and absurdity."