...on Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 01:02:17AM +0000, Db wrote:

 >         Am I wrong in finding the sun3/50 purposeful for two things
 > only.....ie; irc and text editing/reading?
 >   If so, let me know....I'd be really interested to know (-;

It depends... I'm just writing this off a SUN3/160 (which is not yet running 
NetBSD, and I guess it's more sort of a "high end server" compared to a 3/50) -
anyway, the box quite happily handles mail, ftp, www, primary DNS for 
our domain, as well as some terminal users, and, until last week or so, 
5 dialup lines for logins, PPP, and UUCP.

As long as you don't have to care for the power bill, what you 
get is a sufficiently stable, not-too-slow server for most internet services 
(I wouldn't want to run a news system on it, or anything else that uses lots 
of RAM, though...). It didn't even die when I used it as NFS server to 
netboot another (currently diskless) 3/160 off it & compiled some NetBSD 
kernels on that machine... I think that's quite great for a piece of 
hardware which is 10 or 15 or whatever years old. Shure, some cheap 
Pentium could do the same and lots more, but it wouldn't be as much fun.

Alex.