Michael Laajanen <michael_laajanen@yahoo.com> writes:

>Hi,

>Tim Hogard wrote:
>> retrocomtoday@aol.com wrote:
>>>> You can offload web or other network services to an SS20. It's probably
>>>> a bit slow for a desktop box these days.
>>> Oh, I'm not worried about the speed. The other computer that I picked
>>> up today was a 1Mhz, 32K Commodore 8096-SK (basically an 80-columns
>>> PET), with dual 5.25" floppy disk drive and a printer. Not got much
>>> use for the printer to be honest, but it was in with the bundle. I
>>> also own a few other 8-bits, just for fun ;-)
>>
>> The Sparcstation 20 is not going to be an impressive workstation
>> however it will run apache and named just fine and you can lock it
>> down tight with Solaris 9.
>>
>> We pulled our last one out of production just a few months ago but
>> we are keeping them for backups if the newer hardware fails and for
>> disaster recovery.
>>
>> -tim
>> http://web.abnormal.com

>We still have two SS20 on S8 and S7 for HW schematic tools, works perfectly.

And they make perfect small servers for just about any application. Solaris
8 is the best version of Solaris for the SS20's, but I like to run NetBSD on
them too. Thinking about trying BSD out on an old MIPS-based Raq2 (pre-Sun
purchase of Cobalt Networks) as well.

Craig.
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