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Date:      Thu, 11 Dec 1997 10:16:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To:        Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Beginning SPARC port
Message-ID:  <199712111512.KAA18127@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
In-Reply-To: <199712111403.JAA11401@marsellus.itribe.net>

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On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Darren Reed wrote:

> > That's pricey for an IPX, especially mono.  You can buy new SS5 175mhz
> > machines for around 4k.  Not much more than a new PII based PC.  I would
> > rather have the Sun personally.
> 
> I assume you mean the SS5-TurboSPARC with the 170MHz CPU ?
> 
> SunOS Release 5.5.1 Version Generic_103640-08 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
> Copyright (c) 1983-1996, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> vac: enabled in writeback mode
> cpu0: FMI,MB86907 (mid 0 impl 0x0 ver 0x5 clock 170 MHz)
> 
> esp0: type 3 (FAS100/100A) speed 40MHz
> esp0: sd3,0 tgt 3 lun 0:
>         Synchronous(10.0MB/sec) Clean CanReconnect
>         Non-removable Disk:     IBM      DCAS32160SUN2.1G S60B
> 
> mmmm, they make a very nice box :-)
> 
> Darren
> 

Yep, that's the very one.  The MicroSparc II's are nice chips too, but I
don't think Sun is still shipping them.

-- 
Jamie Bowden
Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net

If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up.  But boggle can go.
	-Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)




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