SparcServer 1000

Greetings, Is anyone here familiar with the Sun SparcServer 1000 systems? This morning, I picked one up at a hamfest; it has two CPU boards in it, each, it appears, has 4 CPUs. I was able to identify one of the boards from it's part number from what I found on the net; appears to have 20MHz CPUs; the other board is a higher number, but I've found little data for it this far. The CPU boards are: 501-2336 and 501-2541. Does anone have any data on these? Being unfmamiliar with multiprocessor systems, I'm wondering how fast this will be in comparison to my 170MHz Ultra-1; slower for some things and faster for others, I guess, while consuming much more power---is this correct? Wow, this is one heavy machine! In order to figure out if Solaris 8 can run on it, do I count the total amount of memory in the system, or the amount of memory per CPU? Haven't identified the memory in it yet, but one CPU board has 12 banks filled. -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis Ancient guru who see future once say: All Rights Reserved "wise man who meditate upon immortal wisdom rdd(a)perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 of Bart Simpson's words: "Don't have a cow, http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd man" will enjoy interesting life."