Re: Sun Ultra 60 or not?

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From: terryc
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:02

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:53:39 +0000, DoN. Nichols wrote:

> On 2008-06-29, terryc <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 	[ ... ]
> 
>> My 2c is that if you are going to go out and spend $$$ to buy hardware,
>> then buy X86 system hardware rather than sun stuff. Especially if you have
>> some hardware skills and can buy  yumcha x86 stuff. The parts will always
>> be reuseable in other systems.
> 
> 	Tell that to my collection of ISA cards which won't work in the
> PCI slots of newer Intel boxen.  And what is the meaning of "yumcha"?
> I've never encountered it before.  And for that matter -- what about the
> ST-506 interface disks from the old PCs?  You have to find a controller
> which will fit in a PCI slot and talk to the disk on anything made since
> the IDE interface came into common use.  And good luck fining one of
> *those* with a PCI connector. :-)

Yawn, you left out your collection of S100 cards.

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From: terryc <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au>
Subject: Re: Sun Ultra 60 or not?
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:02:19 +1000
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