[SunRescue] Cheap big iron

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I don't think anything but Dynix will run on it.  Looking around, G++ runs
on it.  The seller said two harddrives.  Based on when these machines were
out, I'm guessing that they would be .5g or 1g drives.  Oracle runs on the
thing.  Some conteporaries seem to be the Sparc2s and SGI 4D machines, so
I'm guessing that it might be 40mhz processors, but don't really know.
And as the MIPS R8k demostrated, mhz says extremely little about speed.
It might be equiv to a Sun1000 with 5 SM31(??) modules (the 40mhz ones
that original come witht the mazhine).  

Dynix is based on BSD4.2

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Loomis, Rip wrote:

> I'm in Maryland and I could drive down to
> Roanoke to pickup, and then I could wire
> a 30A circuit in my basement...but the last
> thing that I want to explain to my wife is
> a Sequent.  It's neither elegant enough
> nor powerful enough for my tastes.
> 
> Now, an 8 processor SS1000 or UltraEnterprise
> box, I would go to bat for...but the price
> on those always seems to be well over $100.
> Ah well.
> 
> Without knowing what the actual processor
> family is, I've no idea whether any other
> more recent OS will run on this sucker...
> or are there any DYNIX die-hards out there
> who would actually run DYNIX?
> 
> --Rip
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:09 PM
> > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [SunRescue] Cheap big iron
> > 
> > 
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1226966126
> > 
> > This machine is currently under 100 dollars for a 10 proc 
> > machine.  Pick
> > up in VA.  Only problem is it requires a 30A 120V feed.  Darn it.
> > 
> > --
> > Joshua Boyd
> > 
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