[Geeks] Sun Kit is just BETTER

James Lockwood james at foonly.com
Thu Jun 13 13:54:57 CDT 2002


On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> The reason I ask "why" is that release of the SPARCstation1 was litterally
> a few months away, and they went and released a 68030 desktop that needed
> a different kernel arch.  Geeeeez...

My pre-SPARC desktop was a "3/450" sun3x "desktop".  33MHz 68030, 32MB
RAM, SCSI, a P4 cg6 and a cg9.  We were scrapping sun3 gear left and right
when the 4/200's and 4/400's came in, so I pieced together the best of
what was left.

I still miss that box.  Except for the heat output.

-James



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