[geeks] Sun-HOWTO

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:52:14PM -0700, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> Even the early systems are doing well - right now our group goes out on
> installs, and works to help local folks and train 'em.  A fellow greoup
> memeber and I hold the record right now, for a system delivered on Friday,
> and running on Monday (less time than we like, but we got 48 hours of
> burn-in/diags done!).  Not bad for a 72-CPU 144G system.  The cool thing
> was that the config needed was one big-ass domain, and it was so sweet to
> see a swngle OS image boot with that much CPU/Memory.

Does it actually boot up and say "72 x UltraSPARC-III" in the banner? 8-)

> I'm actually impressed with 'em - they are amazingly easy to get going for
> such a complex system.  They essentially take what was good about the E10K
> and make it better.  Plus, the 900MHz UltraSPARC III+ is a fast chip...

Yep - I love the one in this SB1K. Zoom!  Reminds me of when we all had
486/66 boxen and then the Ultra 1/170 came along...

BIll

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX