Subject: Re: Sun Blade 100 support?
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/27/2001 13:38:52
What a piece of crap this thing is.
First off, there's the FUD of the name. A "Sun Blade[tm] Model <anything>"
machine should be an UltraSPARC III-based machine, whereas this one is
really just a speed-bumped Ultra 5+ in disguise (500 MHz UltraSPARC IIe-based).
And ... woo hoo! ATI Mach64-based Rage II+ equivalent graphics in 2001!
A whole 8 Mbytes of video SGRAM! I can drive a monitor in 24-bit color up to
a whole *1280x1024* pixels! Wowee! And that *huge* 2x15 Gbyte disk storage
capacity! 30 whole Gigabytes! Man, that sure is a lot of storage, yessiree!
What year *is* this, anyway?
(And 4 USB ports? Who the f@ck uses/needs more than 2 USB ports? Two words,
Sun: "USB hub")
Why does this thing come with a floppy disk?!? What a waste of internal space.
Sun is playing catch-up, and they haven't got a prayer.
(Damn, I sure am cynical for a former (5 year) Sun employee, aren't I? (-: )
- Greg