[SunRescue] Re: Woah, a PCI Ultra 1

[Chris Powell]

Bill Bradford wrote:

> I didnt beleive it till I saw pictures:
> 
> A PCI ultra 1.  Apparently this was a test machine, never released.. but
> there's pictures to prove it:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=275499088

How many other 'alpha' test machines get outside Sun? How many machines
get as far as prototypes, then get canned? Has anyone got one of the
infamous Sun 486 machines??

> I wonder why it was never released.  I would have bought one!  The Ultra1
> is SO much better made than the '5.

I was trying to find performance specs between U1s and U5s - anyone got
comparison specs?


Chris.