Subject: Re: Sun 3/50 Ham Radio.
To: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
From: Alan Pearson <pearsona@altavista.net>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/12/2001 18:36:35
no, very surpisingly it runs with little or no swapping ( I use fvwm2 as my
window manager). I ran X on a 386 with 4M recently, and it thrashed like hell.
8Mb was fine though.
I think it was something to do with the way this X is compiled...no unnessary
stuff, it seems a lot more compact. It was the X dist. for NetBsd/Sun3 on the
netbsd site.
As for finding a new machine, sure I could look, but this was free, and I want
to use it for something...... I could of course build a 386/486 box, but where
is the fun in that ! :-)
Thanks for all your help !
ALan
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andy Ball wrote:
> Hello Alan!
>
> AP> Got a sun3 given to me a week or so ago and got NetBSD
> > and Xwindows working on it after some hassle. It is an
> > unexpanded beast (4Mb) with no local disk (yet, I have
> > the box and cables etc..).
>
> Doesn't it thrash the disk horribly trying to run X (or
> X Window, never 'Xwindows' ;-) ? I'd welcome the input of
> people more experienced with NetBSD than I am, but my gut
> feeling would be to run it without X.
>
> AP> I was wondering how NetBSD shapes upto the world of
> > AX25, as I would like to use this machine as an AX25
> > sort of router for HAM packet radio.
>
> I can't comment on NetBSD's AX25 support, but if this
> machine is going to be left on all the time (and if you're
> paying the electricity bill :-) you might like to think
> about finding a 3/80 or something. It's slightly faster,
> more expandable and seems to use less power (I only have the
> processor card power consumption figures though).
>
> 73, Andy KB9YLW