11 Jun
2004
11 Jun
'04
4:42 p.m.
On Friday 11 June 2004 07:23, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:00:37AM +0000, Jules
Richardson wrote:
No, they were Sun4m's with real MBUS slots, the 4's/5's didn't have the
MBUS slots. Sun4d was the SparcServer 1000(E) and SparcCenter 2000(E)
(And possibly the Cray CS6400 but I'm not terribly familar with that as I
don't own one ;)
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 10:34, Arno Kletzander
wrote:
SPARC 4s and SPARC5s were sun4ms with various amounts of Sbus slots
IIRC, SPARC 20s and SPARC 10s are sun4ds. Not to forget the Sun SPARCstation 5, which came
after the 10 and
had the new style (gray/violet opposed to gray only) housing...
Weren't both 10's and 20's actually SparcStation 3's? Damn
confusing... I wish I had some DIMMs for SPARC 10s... my main
machine at home is a
SPARC 5 w/256MB of 32MB DIMMs, but I have a SPARC 10 w/0MB of DRAM
sitting in a corner.
Memory is dirt cheap on ebay, at least compared to the same amount of PC100
or DDR memory. I've got a large supply of 16MB DIMMs if you need them.
When I get home, I will own zero machines that can run
Solaris X.
Why would you want to run that OS? ; )
I suppose, I'll have to look for a SPARC machine
better than an U1/170.
If anyone wants to "lose" a 64-bit SPARC machine next Feb, I'll probably
want to upgrade.
Ultra 5's and 10's are a dime a dozen, at least for the <400MHz variety,
and should run Solaris X just fine. Well, they'll run as "fine" as they
run anything else...
Pat
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