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Re: SM61 vs. SM71 - Why such a price difference?

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From: Michael T Pins
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:00

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Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.Com (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer) writes:

>sun4c is still alive and kicking in SunOS 5.7

>Some framebuffer have been dropped (*ZX, cgeight, cgfour, and Sbus bwtwos
>[ but the ELC still works and there's bwtwo driver still present])

So, has support for the bwtwo been dropped or not?
Thare are still many ELCs and IPCs, and more importantly, Sparc2s with
bwtwo cards, still in production.  I don't see how bwtwo support can be
that difficult.

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Subject: Re: SM61 vs. SM71 - Why such a price difference?
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