Re: Just acquired a SPARCstation 2

[Michael Shields]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
  Kjetil Torgrim Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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,

A Sparc 2 makes an excellent personal DNS, web and mail server.  It
doesn't take very much CPU to do that.

> but good old SunOS 4.x is
> more efficient than Linux on such a relic.

Do you have benchmarks to support this claim?
-- 
Shields.
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