[NCLUG] Ultra 5 question

Eric Brunson brunson at level3.net
Tue Jul 17 09:28:10 MDT 2001


* Mike Loseke (mike at verinet.com) [010717 08:58]:
> Thus spake Bryan Watkins:
> > How much fast is linux on an Ultra 5 than pentium 300?  
> 
>  Well from a Sun perspective, Ultra5's suck. These are the heads they were
> using controlling the two E10K's at Ebay when they were having all those
> problems a couple years ago. It's basically a POS case assembled by Compaq
> (same for the Ultra10's) with more PC than Sun parts in it. I've never
> worked with any myself but have several Ultra10's and even though the CPUs
> are 440MHz they are about half the speed of an Ultra60 with a 450MHz CPU.
> Bus and RAM speeds count for alot.
> 
>  I'm sure Linux runs fine on it but go for neat over speed.

Like Mike, I've never had much to do with 5's but we have several 10's
as workstations and I must say they're pretty lame.  Especially the
IDE disk I/O, what are they not even ATA/66 I don't believe.  But the
performance sucks.  My PIII 266 laptop seems *much* snappier than the
Ultra 10.

You can get a *lot* more bang for your buck with an AMD (fight the
evil empire!) machine, with greater options and flexibility in
supported hardware.  Unless you already have the 5's laying around,
then it's hard to beat free.

 lim       mips
cost->0   ------  has no upper bound.  ;-)
           cost


(cheezy pseudo math is only readable in a fied width font)


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