Re: Sun Ultra 5

[mikec@lib.siu.edu (Mike Connor)]

Make sure that price includes (seriously): an OS (Solaris 2.6), hard
drives, RAM, keyboard, mouse.  It comes with ethernet built in.  Just an
Ultra 1 with 192 MB RAM & two 2gig hard drives, and monitor cost SIU 8k
about 8 months ago.  The thing to keep in mind (unless they're changing) is
*everything* besides *just the box&motherboard* is an option.  $2600 would
be phenominal for a complete Ultra 5 System (I only knew of Ultra 2's as
the highest)-- are you sure it isn't just a Sparc 5?  That price would be
about right then (*complete system); maybe bid'em down to 2k (it's not a
young system).

Software: Yep it'll run practically all GNU, and you'll typically find a
lot of GNU utils & programs on a Sun system.  I'm used to Wabi for Windows
Emu, Softwindows works okay on a Mac I know (I do know Softwindows is out
for Solaris). Wabi seems to run Windows apps as reliably as a Windows box--
Softwindows is probably as good or better.  Since this is probably a Sparc
5 (equiv to about a Pentium 90), expect Windows emu to be about 486-33
performance (slow).

Hope that helps.

>Does anyone know anything about the Sun Ultra 5.  The Chronicle of Higher Ed
>has an ad for this machine at about $2600 with monitor (academic price).
>
>Is this a good thing?  Any gotchas?  I am assuming that one can compile and
>run the GNU software on this thing.  Is that true?  The ad suggested that
>Softwindows (I think) would allow it to run the M$ stuff.  Is this true?
>
>Any info would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Alan
>
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