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- From: zippy@cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts)
- Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
- Message-ID: <zippy.726349218@berry.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- Organization: Brandeis University
- References: <rcaldwel.726296968@ponder> <1993Jan6.115253.19572@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:40:18 GMT
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- earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:
-
- >In article <rcaldwel.726296968@ponder> rcaldwel@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Roger Caldwell) writes:
- >>I have a old Sun Microsystems machine, model number Sun-2/120
- >>
- >>Could some kind soul PLEASE tell me what I have, is it good for anything.
- [....]
- >The memory boards have to be adjacent to the CPU board in slot 1, and they
- >can go in slots 2, 3, 4 and 5, yielding a maximum of 4 Mb.
-
- I believe the Sun 2/120 could also take a 4M board, yielding a maximul
- of 7M with graphics display board, or 8M if you didn't want the nice
- monitor.
-
- >Your Sun-2/120 contains a Motorola MC68010 processor, running at 10 (?) MHz.
-
- The 68010 differs from the 68000 in at least one neat way. It could
- sorta kinda cache a small number of instructions, making *very* tight
- machine code loops (a few bytes long) run faster than usual.
-
- [....]
-
- >Basically, any modern PC will run rings around your old, tired warhorse.
- >Seriously, ditch it and get a 486DX2/66 or 486DX/50-based PC clone system and
- >run 386BSD (4.3BSD++ based) on it instead. Send your Sun-2/120 to a museum ...
- Nah. Send it to me. I'd love to have one up and running, for old
- times' sake.
-
- --Pat
-