On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 03:09 PM, Henry R. Bent wrote:
>>    Hey, how does the 4000/90 perform running NetBSD, anyway?  I have 
>> two
>> of the buggers here...got VMS on one of them, and I'm thinking about
>> installing NetBSD on the other.  What sort of performance should I
>> expect?
>
> Hmm, what are you used to working on?

<brag>
   I have Crays here, man. ;)
</brag>

>   It's a little snappier than my
> SparcStation 2 running Solaris 2.5, and feels about as fast as my 
> DECstation
> 5000/260 (though I know it's not).

   That's the sort of comparison I was looking for.  So it sounds like 
it'd make a very usable workstation if things like "whiz-bang" web 
pages are avoided.

       -Dave

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