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- From: billy@sol.acs.unt.edu (Billy Barron - VAX/UNIX Systems Manager)
- Subject: Re: Experiences with Solbourne S3000?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.165450.16905@mercury.unt.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
- Organization: University of North Texas
- References: <5656@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:54:50 GMT
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- nejdl@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Wolfgang Nejdl) writes:
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- >I am thinking of buying a Solbourne S3000, as no comparable system is
- >available from Sun (good monitor, expandable, yet portable). Has anybody
- >had any experiences with this machine, especially its compatibility? Can
- >I just plug in ordinary SBus cards or do they require modified drivers?
- >
- With our other Solbournes, the average compatibility is better than the
- average PC clone is. We haven't got any extra SBus cards so I don't know.
-
- >Finally, does anybody know if Solbourne is planning to upgrade to
- >Solaris 2.0?
- >
- Yes, they definitely are. They plan on supporting 4.X for a LONG time also.
- I think they are recommending waiting to Solaris 2.1 in general (especially
- on their SMP machines), but will be releasing 2.0.
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