[Noisebridge-discuss] Sun Enterprise 4500

[Ronald Cotoni]

I was not going to say leave it on but it is good to see other types of
firmware.  The New world macs are OK for that too but old school
openfirmware is fun.  It is really a fourth interpreter so you can write
actual programs inside the firmware!  Really neato stuff. Also sure, yeah it
will use more power but it is not a sparc.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, d p fenn <weasel at meer.net> wrote:

>
> 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).
>
> \p
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Ronald Cotoni
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