Re: SUN SPARCstation IPC Operating System

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 06:59

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pechter@pechter.dyndns.org (Bill Pechter) writes:

>I think SunOS4 was set up to boot with small memory on the box and
>tuning may help it.

Yes SunOS 4.x was quite a 'lean and mean' operating system. Pity Sun opted
to dump it after the 4.1.4 release.

>>Plus the IPX (like the SS2) provides the option to upgrade the CPU to an 80
>>MHz Weitek PowerUp (if you can actually find them!).

>Yup... I did it to a couple of SparcStations  (actually one an Opus SS2
>clone and an IPX here...)

>Still not a smoking fast box though.

No but it's quite an improvement over the standard configuration given that
it's a raw doubling of the CPU's internal processing speed. That's like
replacing a 450 Mhz UltraSparc-II processor in an Ultra 60 with a 900 Mhz
one, and of course they don't exist except in theory. 8-)

Regards,

Craig.
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Subject: Re: SUN SPARCstation IPC Operating System
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