On Friday 11 June 2004 21:59, der Mouse wrote:
> > IIRC, SPARC 20s and SPARC 10s are sun4ds.
>
> Sorry, they're still sun4ms. (I think sun4d postdates the sun4u, which
> would imply that sun4ds are 64-bit machines...which the 20 and 10
> definitely aren't; I have some and know them.)
Geeze, of all people to get something about SPARC wrong, I wouldn't think
you'd be calling Sun4d 64bit!
Sun4d (as in the SS1000(E) and SC2000(E)) uses 32bit SuperSparc-I/II
modules, although it does have more than 32bit of address space. You can
use up to 5 GB of ram in a maxed-out SC2000(E). That's a *lot* of 32MB
SIMMs. It's capable of using any MBUS-slot module that has an MXCC (aka
M-bus, XD-bus cache controller), which is essentially any SuperSparc that
has L2 cache.
> > When I get home, I will own zero machines that can run Solaris X.
>
> As I have no interest in running Solaris of any stripe, I will
> cheerfully take all those old klunkers of SPARCs off your hands... :-)
The only reason I (do/would) ever run Solaris on a machine is to upgrade
firmware to be able to use a different OS with the machine, or to reverse
engineer a driver. :)
Pat
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Received on Fri Jun 11 2004 - 23:49:17 BST