matthew green said:

>the ELC is nearly as powerful as the SS2 or IPX.  it certainly is
>better than the SS1, SS1+, or SLC, except that you can't have an
>internal disk.  this can be construed as a feature (and was by
>sun's marketing :-)

The ELC had a 33Mhz microsparc, while the SLC was only 20Mhz.

The ELC could have 64megs of memory while the SLC could only have 16.

Sun originally sold these as a diskless solution.

>i used an ELC for about 7 years, ranging use from my only box, to
>my server to my desktop...always with netbsd.

I used one for work for about 3 years running SunOS 4.1.3.

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