🚀 go-pugleaf

A Sun person sent me e-mail in which he said:

> Mike, anybody who claims there is a connection between the Ethernet
> address, the hostid and the serial number on the barcode on the back of
> the box is simply Dead Wrong. I've got tired of saying this on the
> newsgroup so I'll just email you to put your mind at rest (having tried
> to see a connection).
> 
> From SPARC4 onwards, the HOSTID is the last 3 bytes of the Ethernet
> address - however this has no connection at all with the BARCODE SERIAL
> NUMBER which normally looks something like
> 
>     350E1234
> 
> meaning this is the 1234th LX built in week 50 of 1993 - 
> 
>     3 (means 1993)
>     50 (means week 50)
>     E Classic LX (I think)
>     1234 simply an ordinal number
> 
> I'm not sure about the letter - I see both your SS5's and your Ultra are
> 'F' so I'm not sure how that works...

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Mike Sage
mike.sage@lmco.com