krempel@pacrat.npac.syr.edu (Henry B.J. Krempel) (11/24/88)
We just got a Sun 386i here, and there are two points that I see as being relevant: -by adding another architecture (the 386i) remember that you will have to store most of an operating system distribution on disk. This means 100+ MB are used up. By sticking with the Sun 3, you can use most of the disk you buy for your own storage, even if you want local root and swap. -the Sun 386i seems real slow to me. I've logged in remotely to it while no one was signed on, and it seems slower than any Sun 3 I've used. Someone said that the window system was slower in this release, but I wasn't using windows!