[rescue] Sun T2000 information

[Jerry Kemp]

My understanding is that it is possible, but its just something I've never tried.

Take this comment for what it is, I'm not here to offend anyone, but early T-series boxes are probably just not the thing you want
to run other stuff on.  IMHO, early T-series boxes bring (2) things to the table.  1st, they are very energy efficient, and 2nd,
they are ideal for highly threaded stuff, once you get everything loaded up and running.

Beyond that, and again IMHO, even in their day they were extremely slow.

At a large retailer I was working at when T-2000's were being produced and supported, I fought an 18 month battle (that I ultimately
won), even after they paid Sun to come in and review and optimize our application set up.

Sun said the T-series stuff was great for our application (it wasn't), and application weenies wanted X86/X64 boxes.  Those sucked
too.  Fugitsu M-series SPARC64 was what I battled for, and (again for this specific application) blew everything else away.

All that said, I've got a soft spot in my heart for T2000 boxes.  Not so much for T1000, although I currently own/possess the T1000
that Sun had gifted Mr. Bill.



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Hopefully, this comment will save you some heart-ache in experimenting with 11.4.
Thank you, Jerry.  So 11.3 it is.

What about running other OSes?  I mean, will the ALOM
boot/control/install other OSes -- is this even possible without using a
VM such as qemu?

Sincerely,
N.