"Andrew Tyson" <asptysonATyahooD0TcomD0Tau> writes in comp.sys.sun.hardware:
|I am contemplating purchasing a second hand Sun blade 1000 for personal use.
|I already own a number of older SBus based UltraSparc machines and they have
|always been reliable. However at work we have had three U10s die (with a
|known
|CPU fault)- so I am a bit wary of the newer stuff (I know that U10s are
|fairly ancient
|but it's all relative ;-)

U10's were also designed to be low-cost machines, more like the SB
100/150 series, not the higher-end machines like the SB 1000/2000
series.

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