[geeks] Super Sun3

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> > The following occured to me.  Many Sun3 owners run NetBSD, OpenBSD, or
> > linux instead of SunOS.  So, one could take 4 or these boards, cram them
> > into a Sun3/160 chassis, and run linux SMP with Mosix patch on them.
> > Thus, making a Super Sun3.
> 
> does linux run on a sun3? i'm one of those *BSD bigots, so i'm not even sure.
> i do know that you shouldn't have too much trouble getting these to work with
> NetBSD.  i will definitely grab a few and add them to my list of unsupported
> by NetBSD hardware that i'm going to attempt to get working.  hell, i can even
> plug them into my SGI 4d boxes which have VME and work on AMP (Asymetric MP)
> or something like that. :)

Linux runs on the Sun3.  I would have mentioned *BSD, but I'm not how well
NetBSD or OpenBSD support SMP, and I'm fairly sure that they don't support
Mosix.
 

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Joshua Boyd