Stupid Amiga Tricks

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Sat Jun 12 00:09:13 2004

>>> 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! [...]

Ah! Thanks for the explanation. (I've never worked with a sun4d
machine; you may note that I didn't quite claim the 4d was 64-bit, only
that something I wasn't sure of seemed to imply it.)

By they way, _are_ they post-sun4u designs? I'm fairly sure I didn't
hear of a sun4d until after I'd heard of a sun4u, but of course that's
not the same thing.

>>> 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. :)

Well, you, maybe, but I think it was our friend at Penguin Central that
was going on about having no machines capable of running Solaris X and
indicating a desire for a more recent Sun. (I'm right with you on what
Solaris is good for, myself.)

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