On Friday 11 June 2004 07:23, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:00:37AM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 10:34, Arno Kletzander wrote:
> > > 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...
>
> SPARC 4s and SPARC5s were sun4ms with various amounts of Sbus slots
>
> IIRC, SPARC 20s and SPARC 10s are sun4ds.
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 ;)
> 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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Received on Fri Jun 11 2004 - 23:42:00 BST