[SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC

[Paul Khoury - Tech Support]

At 12:48 AM 2/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Paul Khoury - Tech Support wrote:
>>>>I can come up with a SPARC5 or similar.  What are the specs on this
Multia?
>>>
>>>  You'll trade an SS5 for a Multia?  I'm gonna go get me a pile of
>>Multias! ;)
>>
>>Alpha 166MHz, I think it's a 21264 or something like that.
>>I think I have 16MB parity in there now, but could put in 24MB,
>>has SCSI, SVGA, sound, parallel, serial, PCMCIA, 2.5" HD...
>>
>>Small footprint, built-in ethernet (aui, tp, bnc)...
>
>  ...and slower than pissing tar.  21066, not 21264.

Opps - well, yeah...

Heck, I'll take a SS2 if I can get rid of that machine - it works,
I just don't want to deal with it...

  My 175MHz 21064 (older,
>first-generation Alpha processor) box (AS1000) consistently ran rings
around my
>233MHz 21066-based Multia.  That's why I got rid of it. :)
>

Heh heh heh... A flop alpha - Can anyone think of a flop SPARC? (I can't, but
I've only been into UNIX since my junior year in HS).