the fate of the sparc in the new millenium (was: Re: Unstable kernel,ginete afto???)

[Giorgos Keramidas]

From: The Reverant <reverant at freemail.gr>
Subject: Re: Unstable kernel,ginete afto???
Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:26:50PM +0300

> On Tuesday 28 August 2001 20:23, Christos Ricudis wrote:
> 
> >  I> Se gelasane, me 2.4.x theleis swap >= 2 X RAM
> >
> > 1) Disk space is CHEAP, me ta shmerina mege8h diskwn mporeis na exei
> > aneta swap 2x, 3x, 4x to RAM size sou.
> >
> > 1.5) RAM SIZE IS CHEAP - balte PERISSOTERH MNHMH kai LIGOTERO SWAP
> > SPACE.
> 
> Diladi an exei kaneis sparcstation 5 & 10 pou kai den pairnoun DIMM kai 
> theloun SCSI diskous pernaei thilia apo ton laimo tou kai fountarei mazi 
> me to sunaki tou? :-)

Ma nai.  Exeis dei ti omorfa pou bouliazei ena external SCSI disk,
mazi me to kouti tou, sumparasurontas kai to tape pou etuxe na einai
sto idio kalwdio, meta ton allo disko, kai to allo tape, kai ton allo
disko, ad infinitum, mexri na ftasei na trabhjei kai to box tou
sparcstation, ston bu8o?

Sobara twra, sparcstations are fine, alla den exoun kanena mellon sthn
epoxh pou ena programma mporei aneta na sou 'apaithsei' 64 Mb memory
gia na pei apla 'kalhmera'.  Anybody said Mozilla?

-giorgos