[rescue] Sun Hardware needs good home

Stefan Skoglund stefan.skoglund at agj.net
Mon Dec 2 03:42:19 CST 2019


lC6r 2019-11-30 klockan 22:43 -0500 skrev Dave McGuire:
> On 11/30/19 10:18 PM, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> > And the most handsome of the VMEbus Suns!B  Some part of me wants
> > to kick
> > the 64-bit multicore nonsense off my desk and run one of these
> > delightful
> > systems with a couple MG2 framebuffers.B  Computing wasn't nearly
> > as
> > full of distractions back then.
> 
>   :-)
> 
>   We've been building out some Sun hardware in the museum
> recently.  I
> never realized just how much I miss SunOS4.  A machine with a 50Mhz
> processor and 64MB of RAM (SS10) and everything is INSTANT.  Now my
> fire-breathing 3.6GHz six-core 24GB RAM monster can barely keep up
> with
> what I ask it to do.
> 
> > I'm nowhere near Northern California, but I hope these machines
> > find
> > loving homes.
> 
>   Yeah, me too.  I'd love to put them in the museum, but we have no
> way
> to get them out here.
> 
>                -Dave
> 

Yeah me too but in my case it would involve having it transported over
the atlantic too.... and no i never used a 330.
490, IPC, SS10, SS20, SS5 and short stints on 3/(60,80) and 1+ machines
were my.


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