Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:46:03 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, Paolo Di Francesco <paipai@tin.it>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: For who is interested Message-ID: <36A89D3B.97A1EE00@softweyr.com> References: <643.916912856@gjp.erols.com> <36A75F76.C0643A12@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote:
>
> Gary Palmer wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know if y'all caught the notice, but Sun just dropped the
> > > price of the entry-level Ultra 5 to $2,495 and added 24-bit graphics
> > > to sweeten the deal.
> >
> > Its more than that that has changed. I believe that there are also options to
> > have CPUs with larger L2 caches, and the hard drive has been upgraded from the
> > crappy slow one in the older U5's to at least a 5400 RPM drive, if not a
> > 7200RPM drive. I forget all the details, I'm not really in the market much for
> > U5's at work :)
>
> I'm supposed to get the next one that comes out of company HQ! Yay!
In the meantime, I have a shiny new (well, not so shiny and new to me)
SPARCstation IPX at home, running NetBSD 1.3.3 on a 1.2 GB drive. I
bought this specifically to play with the FreeBSD SPARC port as it
progresses, and to help out where I can. Here's what it cost me:
From GSTek, www.gstek.com:
Barebones SPARCstation IPX: $35
Sun/Conner 200MB SCSI drive: 5
From a friend at work:
1.2G SCSI drive: $50
From Computer Renassiance:
72 pin 16MB FPM parity SIMM: $57
From DataComm Warehouse, www.warehouse.com:
Transition AUI->10baseT xcvr: $20
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$167
Anyone who wants to jump into the SPARC port but thought they couldn't
afford a Sun machine, your number is up. You might want to talk to
GSTek about RAM, those FPM parity SIMMs are getting hard to find. You'll
also need a serial cable, see if your local cable supplier has a Mac to
IBM "laplink" or "file transfer" cable; the serial ports on the IPX are
8-pin mini-DIN connectors wired just like the early Macintosh.
Now, where do I get the compiler suite from? Has anybody made a binary
package yet? ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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