[4793] in testers
Re: 9.0.6: Menu and launching-related issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Thu Jun 14 08:32:25 2001
Message-Id: <200106141232.IAA19995@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Message from "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
received Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:15:38 -0400
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:32:18 -0400
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
>I was using the Sparc5 which is sitting in the test cluster. Though
>rumor has it that the last of the Sparc4s and 5s will be leaving
>before fall. If this is the case, I will move to joust -- which is an
>Ultra 5 -- and make a list of slow apps.
Yep, all remaining Sparcs and Indys will be pulled from the clusters
this summer; what we'll have left are Ultra5s and 10s, O2s, and Dells.
New machines will be Sun Blades and Dell GX150s.
Having an idea of how poorly things behave on older machines is still
useful, of course, so we can advise private workstation owners.
Oh, and if you run into color issues on an Ultra5, you should check
whether it's one of the original 8-bit batch (like mine); the ones in
clusters are all 24.
--Abby
