Subject: Re: Off Topic/Sun Hardware recommendations
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 05/03/2001 14:47:14
On 3 May 2001 eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
>
> We are going to be populating a 25 seat CS lab. Initially I was
> thinking of doing 25 PCs with 1.xGHz processors...
> Sun has a matching grant which allows one to purchase Sun Rays,
> Sun Blades, Sun Ultras.
> The Sun rays appear to be X-Terminals and I would like to have more
> compute power for typical activities in CS lab.
> The Sun Blade100 appears to have 500MHz sparc IIe processor. It seems
> reasonable.
>
> The Blade 100 retails for just under $1000. I think that's w/o the
> monitor.
Yes. I got one, and am pretty happy with it.