Slow? I'ts about as fast for compiling as a 486/50 . but for number
crunching it's FPU makes it about as fast as a pentium.
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On 1 Oct 1999, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> [Joshua D. McConnaughey]
>
> > Or perhaps there is an adapter from AUI to twisted-pair?
>
> These are a dime a dozen around here. Ask your friendly sysadmin if
> he has spare ones lying about -- most machines come with TP installed
> these days, so tranceivers aren't needed anymore.
>
> > I would be interested in any further advice anyone could pass on
> > about how they successfully setup an old SPARCstation 2 to run
> > Linux. My goal would be to use this machine as a print server
> > (with SAMBA) or a small web server. Thank you.
>
> Warning, SPARCstation 2 is a very old and slow machine. Remember it
> was released in 1990 (or perhaps 1991). A 486 is faster. It can be
> used for your purposes if you are patient, but good old SunOS 4.x is
> more efficient than Linux on such a relic. You don't get source for
> SunOS 4, though :-)
>
>
> Kjetil T.
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