From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 12:41:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA16840 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:41:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA16802 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:40:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk) Received: from fdy2.demon.co.uk ([194.222.102.143]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa2022189; 10 Dec 97 20:29 GMT Received: (from rjs@localhost) by fdy2.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.6.12) id UAA00277; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:29:57 GMT Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:29:57 GMT From: Robert Swindells Message-Id: <199712102029.UAA00277@fdy2.demon.co.uk> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu CC: jasone@canonware.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Chuck Robey on Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:57:35 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey wrote: >I would also be a little curious about the availability of sparc hardware >for hobbyist folk. Few of us can afford $10K servers, but what other kind >of more modest setups might be available? I know you probably aren't a >walking database of such things, but if you come up with occaisonal >pointers to folks selling motherboards that might fit into pc cases, and >maybe use PCI, and the location of sparc docs on the web, it'd be nice to >post such things. I'd read them, and probably lots of others would too. >It's likely (working where you do) that you'd be more likely to fall into >that kind of info than I would. http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/SPARCengineUltraAX It needs an ATX case though. ------------------------------------- Robert Swindells - GenRad Ltd rjs@genrad.co.uk - Work rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk - Home