31 Oct
2010
31 Oct
'10
2:11 p.m.
On 10/31/10 4:55 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've never actually touched an Ultra 30, in fact I
don't think I've ever
seen one.
I've had a few. Basically uniprocessor Ultra60s with significantly
limited CPU module compatibility. Oh, and they only have one UPA
framebuffer slot, not two like the Ultra60. Basically a sadly
lobotomized Ultra60.
I'd love a nice Ultra 1E/200 for OpenBSD, I
imagine it would
rock on it. It's pretty nice on a Sparc 5/70. The nice thing about
OpenBSD is it's pretty light on RAM usage. I like running on S-Bus
systems as I have a bunch of 4-port 100Mbit cards. Plus they squeeze
into a small space.
Yes, they are impressively compact. The BSDs really do fly on those
machines. I'm deploying lots of Netra X1s (400 & 500MHz UltraSPARC-IIe)
at customer sites these days as firewall/VPN endpoint machines, running
NetBSD from nifty little 1GB SSDs that plug right into the ATA connector
on the board.
I've run 10 at home briefly, but for the most part
at work we stopped at
8, with a few systems running 9. Now we're mostly Linux & Windows. :-(
Eeeek. Time to move. ;) (though Linux certainly has grown up in
recent years...I can't really complain about it now)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL