UNIX admin wrote: >> Probably a guy like me. Those were fine little boxes >> for what the price back then. >> > > In retrospective, considering the U10 hardware, they were outrageously > expensive back then. Really? For workstations in general, and SPARC in particular they seemed cheap to me. Promotions combined with my Universities discount (no larger than other large commercial accounts got,) I often got Ultra 5's for around/under $2000, and Ultra10's for less than $3000 (I doubt those were creator3D models though.) The higher end PC's we bought at the time (94-97) were also around $1500-$2000, so It wasn't much more for a workstation or a SPARC. Especially when compared to the SPARC 2's. 10's, and 20's I was replacing.
> But it was a different time, I was young and "high" on the purple Sun logo. > > I'm surprised that you'd even consider buying workstation-class hardware > which isn't meant to go into a rack. That's just a tremendous waste of > precious space, something that's not justifiable even for the most modern > desktop system. > If' it's a workstation, isn't it supposed to go on a desk? Why would I put something 'workstation class' in a rack? That's what the rack mount servers are for. Or am I missing something? -Kyle > >> Again I say, the Ultra 10 was a quiet machine. But >> maybe I'm just deaf. >> > > Years of fan noise whirr from a rack full of servers less than a meter away, > with fans blowing at full speed because there's no CPU stepping driver in > Solaris 10, will do that to one. I should know, since I just described > myself (:-/ > > >> Wrong. I'll put the framerate and OpenGL tessalation >> rate with gourand >> shading from that Creator card up against your $75 >> ATI or NVidia card >> and see what the truth is. Sorry but I just don't see >> the comparison. >> > > What good will that graphics test do you when it is time to package Oracle, > or compile a whole webstack worth of PHP dependencies? > > If you have ever tried compiling on an Ultra5 or Ultra10 hardware, you would > have learned the new levels of pain and a whole new definition to the age old > "watching the paint dry" saying. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
