Re: teething probs with Sun Ultra 10 & Solaris 10

On 14 Aug 2006 10:48:18 -0700
"llothar" <llothar@xxxxxx> wrote:

And Linux and Windows supports old hardware very well. Pretty simple
to add a new NVidia to a 1998 machine, or a 800 GB IDE harddrive to an
secondary PCI controller.

I tried to upgrade the memory in a PIII/750 system from late 1999.
Unfortunately, it only takes 3 128MB SIMMs, and there's no BIOS upgrade
for the motherboard. I cannot upgrade the Slot 1 processor either(*).
The BIOS only sees a fraction of a 120GB disk drive. It runs Gnome
painfully slow. I could not consider using it as my desktop system.

Compared to that, my SB2K (its design dating from around 2000 if I'm
not mistaken) is still a very usable system. I happen to use it as my
main desktop and development box.

(*) 6 months after buying a dual-CPU server-grade Intel motherboard with
a 266MHz slot 1 PII processor, I was told Intel no longer sold
compatible processors. If I wanted two processors, I'd have to buy 2
300MHz processors - I ended up sourcing a compatible CPU on eBay.

--
Stefaan A Eeckels
--
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you
have to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a
deep sense of who you are. -- Fred Rogers
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