Sun Sparc ID

From: jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de <(jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de)>
Date: Sat Oct 12 14:24:00 2002

On 11 Oct, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> Sun 4c, runs Linux, SunOS, Solaris (poorly) -
NetBSD and OpenBSD. I run NetBSD in the 1.3 / 1.4 days on a 64 MB SS1+
with the double slot CGSIX. Nice machine. The case design is IMHO the
nicest I have seen up to this time. (And I have lots of old *ix
workstations.) As already stated Linux does not run well on sun4c
machines due to MMU issues.

> 12MHz?
SS1 = 20 MHz
SS1+ = 25 MHz
SS2 = 40MHz
IPC = 25 MHz, on board mono FB
IPX = 40MHz, CGSIX on board 8 bit color FB
The slowest SPARC was the 4/110 with 14.28 MHz.

> original SPARC processor.
SPARC V7. The first SPARC version that Sun used in products. AFAIK
there where some academical predecessors.

> Uses 30 pin parity memory. May not like 3 chip PC SIMMs.
May depend on the SIMMs / RAM chips and the refresh cycles they need.
My SS1+ was happy with 3 chip SIMMs.

> Prefers 9 chip SIMMs. Can take 1MB, probably takes 4MB (mine did).
All SPARCstations should be able to take 4 MB SIMMs as the SS1 can take
them. (According to the sun.hardware.FAQ file.)

> If you have any router or system logs with the
> old MAC address, you can copy it to a new chip.
I prefere to do some surgery to attach a new battery. Much cheaper.
(And I get more geek points for it. ;-) )
-- 
tschuess,
          Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
Received on Sat Oct 12 2002 - 14:24:00 BST

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