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- From: btaplin@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (bradley richard taplin)
- Subject: Anyone used SparcClassic and/or the Solaris 2.1 included with it?
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- Summary: Curious about the new Sparc, Solaris 2.1,if hard drive is enough.
- Sender: btaplin@ucs.indiana.edu
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- Organization: Indiana University
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:36:18 GMT
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- Hello. I recently read the "real low-end" article in a late-fall
- issue of SunExpert and am curious about the new SparcClassic. Is
- 16 mb RAM, a 207 mb hard drive, and Solaris 2.1 a good standalone
- package? Would it be possible to develop using GNU C or Sun's C?
- C++ as well? Scheme? Could this become a "home server" providing
- terminal access from a Macintosh and/or DOS box in other rooms?
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- An alternative in my mind is a fast 486. Dell can preload their
- UNIX S5R4 for a very reasonable sum, bringing the total cost
- hardware plus operating system to under what the SparcClassic
- now goes for, and Dell's newer systems are Pentium-upgradeable.
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- Moving down the cost levels, I understand Tenon's MachTen is a
- full implementation of Mach UNIX for about $600 and up that I
- could run on the Mac LCII 4/80 we currently have at home. We
- might require a little more memory and/or storage. Opinions?
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- Finally, has anyone used Coherent 4.x? I intend to learn UNIX
- but finances are very tight right now, so I figure a 386 with
- Coherent (total system+OS under $1000) might be a good start.
- I mean to become a competent UNIX sysadmin, in practice and I
- hope by profession, so might a 386 be inadequate for my needs?
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- Thanks for your time. Please e-mail to btaplin@ucs.indiana.edu.
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