[Noisebridge-discuss] Sun Enterprise 4500

d p fenn weasel at meer.net
Mon Apr 25 23:58:53 UTC 2011


Le Apr 25, 2011 à 4:36 PM, Andy Isaacson a écrit :

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 02:52:23PM -0700, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
>> There is a nice sun ultra 80 with quad CPUs we can make a fun workstation
>> out of.  It will be sorta fast and if people really want to learn solaris 10
>> or opensolaris, it would be a great machine for that.  Fast (relatively) and
>> up to 4 gig of ram which is still Usable these days.
> 
> The Athlon can run Solaris, too, if you're into that particular form of
> masochism.


but the athalon won't have sparc chips and the craziness associated w/ all thing sparc (register windows, 64-bit stack pointer bias, delay slots). of course, it will have the really nice openfirmware boot environment (well, nice compared to bios/efi/whatever).

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