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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- Subject: Re: Sun3 questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.013018.25231@siemens.com>
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- Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
- References: <1993Jan5.230631.22129@nmsu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:30:18 GMT
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- >so I posted and so far the best offer is for a Sun3/80 motherboard with
- >16M RAM.
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- >cost to do this? All that I can think of that we need is a case, powersupply,
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- Actually, if you're that poor, you could just rest the board on a convenient
- insulating surface. I believe that the power supply is plug-compatible with
- that for an SS[12], which you should be able to find easily enough.
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- >need this one for the CPU. Is that really all we need? someone mentioned that
- >we'd also need an I/O board, but they werent certain of this.
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- It'd be tough to add a board to a machine with no expansion bus.
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- Beware that the 3/80 has a "sun3x" kernel architecture, so if you don't have
- 3x os media you won't be able to boot it.
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