[SunRescue] What exactly is a Sun 4/25 ?

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garten, David N., CTR, OSD/P&R [mailto:GartenD at pr.osd.mil]
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:01 AM
> To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] What exactly is a Sun 4/25 ?
> 
> ELCs are 33MHz.  Boot from anywhere (SCSI, NET).  Compare 
> with SS2 at 40MHz.
> No sbus.  Takes 4 16Meg 72 pin parity SIMMs.  2 slow ports 
> for thingies.
> Will make noise.  AUI ethernet requires a dongle to hook it 
> to your 10BT or
> 10B2.  Make a fair web browser terminal or a cheap xman 
> terminal or even a
> Postscript viewer.  Way cheap at flea markets/ham shows/swap 
> meets.  I got
> the one I'm looking at out of a dumpster!  Had 64M of 16M parity SIMMs
> inside, too.  

Wow, that would be enough RAM to run X on that machine at a reasonable
speed.  I've got an ELC with a toasted monitor sitting under my desk here
(not running) waiting for me to take it appart and see what's dead, but
since the monitors aren't all that great I haven't put much time into it.

[snip]
> 
> Anybody used SCSI to bridge a cluster?  TFTP boot a set off LINUX and
> cluster a box full of em?  They are not hot.  Ought to be 
> able to get a
> bunch on a single pee-cee PS.  Now you got me thinkin!

Ya know, I'm pretty sure that Linux has some drivers to run TCP/IP over
SCSI...  I wonder if you could cluster that way.  It wouldn't be too fast,
and most of my machines have only 1 SCSI port, so it would be hard to chain
more than 2 of them together.  Hmm....
	Greg