<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Interesting - the only other prototype sun hardware I've see was a list member's PCI-based Ultra-2.<div><br></div><div>I suspect this device was built mainly from repackaged technology in other Sun products, with a likely exception being the video hardware. I *suspect* the OS is more "updateable" than you suspect.</div><div><br></div><div>It would have been nice to have seen what Sun hardware would look like if the company survived - imagine a machine like this with an updated ultraSPARC CPU and NVMe storage and a current high-end business class graphics adapter/framebuffer... ah, well, I could always cobble something together like that with a current Intel-based system, but what's the fun in that.</div><div><br></div><div>Interesting to note that this design had all the connectors on either side, the front and back promoted "OpenSolaris" and "UltraSPARC".<br><br><div dir="ltr">Ken</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 11, 2022, at 15:12, Stephen Conley <cheetah@tanabi.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>I am so tempted by this, but I would never be able to update the
operating system on it I don't think. Very, very cool piece of
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<div dir="auto">I had the high bid until mid-morning. Sadly, that
much money isn’t in the cards right now.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Please someone get it and publish pictures and
explore, this thing looks awesome. And it comes with the
customized solaris disk!</div>
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T2 desktop machine. But hurry up, only 8 hours left at the
time of writing.<br>
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