On Mon, 20 May 1996, Kees Jan Koster wrote:

> Hoi NetBSD-port-sun3,
> 
> I was wondering how stable NetBSD would be for my faithful sun3. How does
> it compare to SunOS 4.1.1?
> 
	Should be pretty stable on a 3/60 - the only outstanding problem
	I know about is that sometimes, on some machines something seems
	to cause problems with the shared libraries in core, needing a
	reboot to clear. (And if that seems vague, thats because the
	problem is vague :) NetBSD is also likes a little more memory
	than SunOS.

	As for the upside - running a (c) 199X OS rather than a (c) 198X
	one should say enough... You should be able to run just about any
	SunOS binary under emulation, plus you get to play with a fully
	featured OS (my favourite feature tshi week is the union file
	system :) which is still being continually improved. Plus full
	OS source...

> An unrelated question. The monitor of my sun is slowly dying :(. Lately the
> image randomly contracts and expands and I fear that I need to build a new
> power supply.
>   1) Is this the power supply giving in, do I need a new one?
>   2) What are the output specifications of a power supply?
>   3) Where should I really be asking these quiestions :)
> 
> I own a sun3/60 with 8Mb ram and 140Mb disk space (more available via NFS).
> 
> Please mail me directly, I'm not subscribed to your list.
> 

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