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Petralli Andres wrote:
 > I have recently acquired an old SparcStation 4 for a good price, now
I'd 
 > like to speed up this
 > machine somehow. At the time I have 64 MB of Ram and a 1 GB Hdd. I
know I 
 > have to put in some more
 > Ram in it and use a bigger and faster HDD, but what can I do else? 

Nothing, at least nothing that won't cost more than a complete new
system.

 > Especially I'm looking to replace
 > the framebuffer with 24 bit fb and maybe the processor/motherboard.
Or are 
 > there any overdrive-like expansion cards to install?

You can probably find a framebuffer, but I think the CPU is soldered in,
and like I said a new motherboard is going to cost more than a new Ultra
5 system.

 > I also use Solaris 2.7 . Is this maybe too resource hungry for my
machine? 
 > Shall I downgrade to 2.5.1 ?

I'd try 2.7, but it probably won't make much difference. Didn't they say
that 2.7 is less resource-hungry? If there isn't a noticeable slowdown
with 2.7, use 2.7 because it's free, it's up-to-date, and it's Y2000
compatible.

 > Any advice on how to get hardware and on how to speed up my little
cute 
 > Sparc4 is welcome.


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