[mcclinti@student.lansing.cc.mi.us] Re: Sparc 2 Systems

[Torgo Jr]

Edward Glowacki wrote:
> 
> Sparc chips are generally faster per MHZ than Intel chips, and having SCSI
> instead of IDE is another good advantage.  

How generic is the SCSI?  Will "any" scsi device/drive work, or 
does it have to be Sun hardware?

> It would probably make an
> excellent Xterm.  Another option if the monitor is color: stick on another
> hard drive, make it into a low end web/mail server, and spend the $$$ to
> buy the adapter so you can stick the big monitor on your workstation. =)

My main monitor is a Viewsonic 21" sitting on my switchbox, so this
won't help me any.  :)

> I have a Sun fixed frequency monitor working at home on my PC, works
> great.  I assume putting a PC monitor on a Sun wouldn't be that hard
> either, so long as you have the right adapters and the monitor can handle
> the frequencies.  If anyone is interested, I'll dig up where I bought my
> adapters from.

I'm starting to think that this would be more of a pain to 
set up and run...  

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