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Re: sun3y !?!?!?!?!?!?

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 00:00
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In <3o3gof$7rm@sator.eric.on.ca> tagoldth@camtwh.eric.on.ca writes:
>Much to my utter amazement, I just finished working on a machine that
>claims its a sun3y, with a mc68040 processor!  I double checked, and thats
>what arch -k and mach return.

What version of SunOS does it claim to be running?  And what's the SCCS
ID on the "arch" and "mach" shell scripts?  I don't remember there being
any "sun3y" in those scripts.

Craig Dewick <craig@zeta.org.au> wrote:
>Argh! I know the two 68030 machines (3/80 and 3/480) were called the 
>Sun3x line, so I have no doubt that any planned 68040 machine would have 
>been a Sun3y.

Unless the 68040 machine requires a significantly different "hat layer"
(MMU driver, essentially) from the 68030 machine, or had a significantly
different I/O bus or PROM or something such as that, I would very *much*
doubt that any planned 68040 machine (I seem to remember that the
code-name "Hobbes" was originally intended for a 68040 machine, but that
when plans to do a 68040-based Sun-3 were dropped, the code name was
recycled for, I think, the IPX) would be called a "Sun-3y" rather than a
"Sun-3x".
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From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
Subject: Re: sun3y !?!?!?!?!?!?
Date: 1995/05/02
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