7 Apr
2005
7 Apr
'05
10:20 p.m.
I don't know much about the Sun 3 series though -
most of what I see
from a google search is about the 3/50 and 3/60's. Is the 3/80 an
ignored bastard child from sun?
Somewhat, but not nearly so much so as the 386i. :-)
A 68030 in a pizzabox, not a classic Sun 3, but not a
Sparc either?
Right. I've seen it said that the 3/80 was Sun hedging their bets.
They were betting that the SPARC would take off. But they weren't
quite ready to bet everything on it, so they did the 3/80 at about the
same time - you may note how singularly similar the 3/80 is in sokme
respects (such as case style) to the early SPARCstations.
Are the hd carriers hard to come by?
Can't help you much there. I don't think I've ever owned a -3/80. I
have a rather fuzzy memory from when I worked with them that the drive
sleds were the same as for the SS1 and SS1+, but that could very well
be wrong.
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