[ale] Sparc10

[Armsby John-G16665]

I set up a sparc 10 with RED HAT 6.2.  Worked Fine.  SLOW.  I had a single 40 megahertz processor in it.  I tried to find a faster CPU on Ebay but the really good CPU's cost as much as a used PC.  A major limitation I encountered is 1) The best the serial port could handle was 38.8 Kbytes to my U.S. Robotics modem.  2) There isn't really that much in the way of software to put on it.

At the time I got the machine, I had a choice of a DEC Alpha and the Sparc.  In retrospect perhaps I should have taken the Alpha.   I finally traded the Sparc and will stick with Intel.  By the way, RED HAT supports a Sparc Linux newsgroup.

John



-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Brooks [mailto:db at amorphous.org]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 9:36 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Sparc10



>Hi there,
>
>Â Â Â Â Â Â  Yes, it is slow. Linux has been ported to the sparc but that
>doens't mean it's the best place to run it. My advice is run Linux on x86
>machines and run FreeBSD or Solaris on Sparc!
>


There's a sparc port of FreeBSD now?  Since when?  It's not mentioned on
their webpage or FTP...



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