Gordon Grieder wrote: [[what's a Sun ELC like]] I've still got the ELC I bought in the summer of 1993, and the last time it was powered on (= 4 years ago) it was still working fine. With 40M memory, it ran SunOS 4.1.3 & stock X11R5 fine, for my mix of Perl and C++ programming (up to gcc 2.95.2 or 3 I think), Maple, and floating-point number-crunching. It was generally about like a 486-33 in integer performance, or a 486-50 for floating-point. In Suns-of-that-vintage terms, it's about 80% of the speed of an SS2.
But if I wanted to use it today, I'd install OpenBSD on it. :) For general old-Sun-hardware help, you might try the suns-at-home mailing list, http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah/ . ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, "Old Europe" http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- quote by Freire / poster by Oxfam
