SUN 4/110, 8 Mb, 140 Mb, 60 Mb Tape, 19in Mono. UPGRADE

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In article <635 at brchh104.bnr.ca> karim at uncecs.edu (Omar A. Karim) writes:
>I have this SUN 4/110 with 8 MB memory, 140 Mb disk, 60 Mb Tape drive and
>19 in Mono monitor. It runs at about 0.8 Megaflops, 7 MIPS.  I want to
>UPGRADE this if possible, but SUN wants an arm and a head for any possible
>upgrade. They clearly would much rather I buy a whole new system, such as
>a SPARC 2. I would like an improved performance of 8-10 Megaflops, while
>retaining all the peripherals.  I have $7000 or so to spend. Have I stated
>my woeful and perhaps common case clearly enough? 

You can get a Sparc 2 with 16mb RAM, 200 meg disk, and 19" monitor for
about $8K with the educational discount.  This is a complete 28 MIPS 4
MFLOPS machine, plus you can hang on to your 4/110 too, or sell it to
someone.  Upgrading doesn't tend to be a very efficient process.

>I would appreciate any ideas or experience anyone has to offer in the way
>of improving the performance of this machine while retaining such things
>as OS, compilers etc.

You might try using gcc instead of cc, but it doesn't seem to improve
things as much on Sparc machines as it does with 68000 or vax machines.

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