Sparc

[Dave Yearke]

>Hi all!  I just recently got a Sun UltraSparc 5 workstation up and 
>running here at my home in Lancaster and was wondering if anyone else in 
>the mailing list had one of these marvels as well.  If so, is anyone 
>running Solaris 10 on their box?  I apologize if this is off-topic for 
>this mailing list/group, but was just curious.
>
>Thanks!
>Robert Wolfe [MCP]

I've been beta-testing Solaris 10 for a few months now, and it's pretty 
interesting. I have been wondering if there is any interest in non-Linux, free 
(as in beer), Unix-like operating systems among the readers of this list. 
Solaris will soon be released under an open source license, but I don't know how 
much of a difference that makes as far as this list goes.

As for U5s, they're nice workstations, and they hold up well. We have many here 
that have been in continuous service since they first came out, which has to be 
at least five years now, if memory serves me correctly (and it often doesn't).

If there is interest, I'll summarize what I like and don't like about it. If 
not, or if this is out-of-bounds for the list, then forget I said anything. :-)

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                      Dave Yearke, yearke at eng.buffalo.edu
         "We are, after all, professionals" -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson