Subject: Re: sun3 usefullness....
To: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
From: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/10/1998 00:15:13
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ty Sarna wrote:

> For many years a 24M 3/60 was our main server, and it still does mail,
> WWW, INN for internal and gated-from-maillist newsgroups, and light-duty
> NFS serving.  It's plenty fast for those jobs.  It's only a pain when
> rebuilding the OS or installing software... 

Well after the deluge of mail I got on this subject I am entirely 
*convinced* that indeed these 3/60's will do the job(s)...

> Actually, I think that honor probably goes to the Amiga 2500/20. It has
> a slower clock rate (~14.3MHz, 4x NTSC or PAL), and maxes out at 4M of
> 32-bit-wide memory. After that, you can put in at most another 4M of
> 16-bit-wide memory on a ~7.2MHz bus.
> 
> (But, it was pretty rockin' with AmigaOS, considering that OS was
> designed to run comfortably on a 68000/~7.2MHz/512K :->)

Ahh..people that acutally remember the old computers. Amiga, commordores, 
atari's. co-co's. :)