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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: SPARC clones
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.005757.9220@twg.com>
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- Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:10:16 GMT
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- I also get to report nice results from SuperWorkstations. I had a
- SPARCstation 1 (not 1+) and upgraded to their SS2 clone through a
- motherboard swap. We installed no new software and it rebooted on my
- old installed system perfectly. Some of my old memory didn't work (100 ns
- SIMMs) so they sold me 16 meg of memory (total now 32 meg).
-
- At least the hardware itself has worked flawlessly. I'm using Solaris 1.0.1
- with OW3.
-
- Xengine measurements went from ~150 rpm to ~250 rpm. SimCity is now playable
- when it wasn't before. Compiles go faster. The HDS X terminal runs even
- faster now. My housemates complain the roaches run around too fast now.
- etc etc ..
-
- There were some weirdities:
-
- They didn't give me any sort of manual. I asked specifically for one,
- and they promised to FAX me one, but it never arrived here.
-
- They called me back a day later to say the FPU chip on my old system was
- bad and wanted to split the $200 cost with me. I dunno the truth of whether
- the chip was good or bad, and have no way to prove it one way or another.
- A bad FPU chip might've explained some of why the screen crawled slowly
- at times (especially while playing SimCity). Or it could just be OW3.
-
- The salesman was prone to ask pryingly personal questions making me
- uncomfortable.
-
- They aren't members of SPARC International. The salesman said they didn't
- see the point of spending that $50,000 when it didn't seem to do them any good.
-
- David
-