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- From: das@eplunix.UUCP (David Steffens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sun 3/260 to Sun 4/260?
- Message-ID: <1276@eplunix.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:31:46 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.192431.24143@ryptyde.cts.com>
- Organization: Eaton-Peabody Lab, Boston, MA
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- In article <1992Sep4.192431.24143@ryptyde.cts.com>,
- scott@ryptyde.cts.com (Scott McClure) says:
- > What is required to upgrade a Sun 3/260 to a 4/260?
-
- Be advised that the latest word from Sun is that Solaris 2.1 and up
- will _not_ support the floating point processor on the 4/200-class
- machines. That means that _all_ floating point operations will be
- emulated in software, i.e. SLOW. So, in upgrading from a 3/260
- to a 4/260 you may be upgrading from the frying pan into the fire.
- You might be better off in the long run with a SPARCstation 2 upgrade.
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