[rescue] x86 vs. SPARC BIOSes (was: Small servers (was Re: WTT: 1.5G of PC2700 for 1G of PC100))

Jonathan Katz jon at jonworld.com
Tue May 13 11:49:55 CDT 2008


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
wrote:

> That's what a Data General MV20000 supermini I worked on had.  It had a
> small computer that ran the big one, and you could talk to it without
> booting the big one.
>
> Very useful.


"Mainframe power in the size of a pizza box!" I remember that ad campaign
from when i was a little kid... Was never 100% sure what DG box was being
referenced in the ad, though. Anyone remember?

-Jon



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