SUMMARY: [Q] Is it worth to purchase Sparc 5 ?

From: unixadm@www.co.mo.md.us
Date: Sat Apr 12 1997 - 10:42:14 CDT


Thank you for so many people give me the answer. I summary the answer on below.

  , The Solaris 2.X filesystem has done > 2GB for a long time. Its
    something like 1 terabyte. Its SunOS 4.X that cant do > 2gb.

  . Solaris 2.6 will not be a 64 bit OS.
    It will be a 32 bit OS (32 bit address space).
  
  . The 64 bits application in the future will still run on Sparc 5 (32 bits).

  . Some people mention Sparc 5 will be phase out around summer. I don't know
     is it true or not?

  . A lot people mention Sparc 5 and Ultra Sparc 1 price should not much
   difference. I got a quota from a reseller and list in bellow. Actually it
   has $7,000 difference. My agency is very poor, even one thousand dollar
   difference my boss will not agree.

      Sparc 5 Model 170 Ultra Sparc 1 Model 170
      S5TX1-170-64-P17 OR-U1-20/64
      64 MB RAM 64 Mb RAM
      2.1 GB HDD 2.1 GB HDD
      20" Monitor 20" monitor
      TGX Graphics TGX graphic
      Keyboard, Mouse keyboard, Mouse
      Internal CD-ROM Internal CD-ROM
      Floppy drive floppy drive

    US$5,498 $12,269

My original post:
>
> We plan to purchase a SUN SPARC 5 (170 MHZ) computer as a testing
> computer for ORACLE DB and Web server. I got wonder is it still worth to
> purchase SPARC 5 or not? My ideal are based on following:
>
> . Sparc 5 is 32 bit computer and SOLARIS 2.6 will be 64 bit software.
> The Sparc 5 may not get any advantage on 64 bit softrware?
>
> . The Solaris 2.6 file system can > 2 GB. Sparc 5 is 32 bit computer,
> it still can not get > 2gb advantage.
>
> Does my ideal correct? Any opinion for SPARC 5? Thank you for help.
>



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