Re: A 4/4xx or 6xx VME CPU in a 4/110 chassis... any thoughts?

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From: Casper H.S. Dik
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00

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mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org (Mike Frisch) writes:

>Casper H.S. Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl) wrote:
>: The 4/6xx board should give you all you need, it has:
>: 
>: 	4 Sbus slots
>: 	2 Mbus slots
>: 	32 SIMM slots (for a total of 32*16 MB, install in 16 SIMMs at a time)
>: 	and you rstandard ethernet & kbd/mouse & audio & ttya/b & SCSI-2

>	I assume the 4/6xx is supported by Solaris 2.5?  Is that fast
>SCSI-2 or just plain SCSI-2?  What kind of performance does it offer
>compared to later SPARCstations?  This sounds like a very interesting
>upgrade for my 4/110. 

It's plain SCSI.  The board is a slower version (I think) of the SS10,
its predecessor.  It does run newer hypersparc & SuperSPARC so it can be
made to run much faster than an 4/110.  If you could get
such boards easily, is another question.

It is supported in 2.5.

Casper
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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: A 4/4xx or 6xx VME CPU in a 4/110 chassis... any thoughts?
Date: 1996/06/07
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