Re: gEDA-user: wont be watching list :(

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:35:03PM +1100, John Sheahan wrote:
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> > and then there is all that fan noise from many Sun boxes.
> > It might make them reliable, but it does'n make them nice to be near for 
> > mine.
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> No Sun that I own (SS20s, U5s, U30, E250, other odds and ends) is louder
> than many of the P4s I work with at work.  OK, maybe the Sun 3/160 is
> louder than the P4 right next to my ear.  But I don't think a deskside
> machine from the 80s is a fair comparison for noise.

I had a SS10 10 years ??? back, and it was very pleasant  to hide that 
around the corner  with a pc running linux as an xterm.  That old 486 
was _much_ quieter.
Had an E250 that was also very loud. The U10 was fine, but that never 
seemed top be an example of one of a quality sun.
Today the amd64 boxes jsut seem sooo much faster.
john