[SunRescue] OPUS Systems SPARCard (5)?

[Matthew Haas]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Magnus Abrante wrote:
>
> You have stumble onto a SPARCard from OPUS system...
>

Aha! SPARCard gives me much better results... lots of good information...
 
> The card is a clone of a SPARCstation, dont really know which model. Its
> suppose to clone.. But it sounds like it has some kind of sun4m CPU to
> me. The card was btw designed for Solaris 1.1 (thats SunOS 4.1.3 or SunOS
> 4.1.3C).
>

That is still a question... From my new-found reading on this device, it
appears I may have what was the SPARCard 5... but the JPG didn't quite
match my board... but I didn't look very hard either.

I still have a question as to setting one of these up... I'd like it very
much to run as a second computer inside a 486... but I have a question
regarding getting the video to work... do I have the appropriate card? Or
am I stuck doing just serial (as I do not have their Inferno/whatever
integration software)
 
> Anyway, this card was placed on a "ordinary" PC motherboard, thus creating a
> dual PC/Sparc computer, and its my guess that they accessed the UNIX system
> from the PC..
>

Indeed.. the SPARCard was used as a means to "transparently access" UNIX
applications from within one's comfy windows, dos, os/2, etc. environment.
By sharing the video and other features. 
 
 Thank you very much for getting back to me... I now have some answers and
more questions... just need to get one of those PC-things to play with
this thing.

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