[H-GEN] [Fwd: Sun Workstation for sale]

[James C. McPherson]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "James C. McPherson" <James.McPherson at mq.edu.au>)



Robert Brockway writes:
 > sinfetik <staeci at geocities.com> wrote:
 > : Hmmh, I don't know much about Sun's hardware, but a 17 monitor is good,
 > : are they high-definition monitors?  I know I can run Linux on sparcs but 
 > : I know nothing of what is being offered - perhaps a comparison to an x86
 > : machine might help.  
 > 
 > I believe an IPC is about as powerful as a 486-something very roughly.
 > I own a sparc with a 17" monitor that I got for a good price.  I use it as
 > an Xterminal - the display is very good for this, and it is used to log
 > into my k6-233 (blake).

I _think_ (can't precisely recall benchmark figures) it's =~ a 486dx25. You
can have up to 48Mb onboard (12 x 4Mb 30pin 80ns simms). The display is the
builtin "bwtwo" - 2bit mono, which will be officially EOLd (EndOfLife-d) when
Sun stops shipping Solaris 2.6 (end of this year I think). From the Sun
hardware FAQ:
--clip here
 monochrome video: The onboard framebuffer is a bwtwo.
                  The video output levels are analog. The framebuffer is
                  capable of the following resolutions and sync
                  frequencies:
                        1152 x 900 @ 61.8KHz horizontal, 66Hz vertical
                        1152 x 900 @ 71.7HKz horizontal, 76Hz vertical
                        1024 x 800 @ 71.7KHz horizontal, 85Hz vertical
                        1022 x 1000 @ 81.8KHz horizontal, 76Hz vertical 
--clip here

 
 > : I want to run gimp and vmware (win95 runnning one Macromedia
 > : application, 
 > : either flash or fireworks).  Also does this include a mouse, are sun 
 > : mice three or two button?
 > 
 > Watchout for optical mice - they take some getting used to :)


You won't have a snowball's chance of running either the gimp or vmware unless 
the box is maxxed out for ram and has an awful lot of swap space. Even then I
dunno how vmware will go. The IPC should include a 3button optical mouse with
the type-4 keyboard, and you'll need an optical mouse mat. I'd advise getting
a mat with finer rather than coarser grid lines since you can get a finer
detection of movement with it. Rob's suggestion of using it as an XTerm is
probably best unless you want to max out the ram and install solaris 2.5.1 on
it if you've got a large enough disk (1Gb min). Have a look at the SparcLinux
XTerminal package at http://www2.gol.com/users/gaijin/Linux/ - it is a very
good package.


James C. McPherson
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