> And sometimes, as I suspect was the intent of the original poster, you > just want to be able to check various stuff against a Solaris sparc > machine. It doesn't have to be the latest, but it has to be a sparc, and > it has to run solaris.
I agree. I answered the question of comparing Intel/AMD to workstations. If you have $2K for running Linux programs and the question is would I buy a good PC or some very old workstation. Workstation are much harder to work with and impossible to fix ( unless money is no object ). Sure old Workstation were better built even from the standing point of today's Intel Workstation, but on the latter you usually get 3 year warranty and the power supply does not cost the price of a budget PC. Eventually even the most superb designed workstation will break and when you hear the price of the replacement parts.... Fortunately you can get adapters "whetever the workstation have" -> VGA and use a regular screen since a 5+ year old CRT is very hard on the eyes. I throw away 4 Workstation this past 2 years, just because the basic price of the repair was the price of a budget PC with 3 years warranty. Needles to say, a budget PC performance is supprier to most 5+ year old workstations. Just my 2 agorot. Bye ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
