[SunRescue] Re: Woah, a PCI Ultra 1

[James Lockwood]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jonathan [no, I don't write for /.] Katz wrote:

> When I was the Unix admin at Alteon Networks for a few months we had all 
> kinds of funky Sun gear. Alteon is a partner with Sun in making their 
> Gigabit Ethernet NICs and switches, so we needed all kinds of platforms 
> to develop on and test their stuff. I remember in particular an 
> UltraSparc2-based system which was nicknamed 'Quark' (this was in late 
> 1997.) In looking at Sun's current product line I think it would either 
> be a true precursor to the U10 or U60. It had SCSI, but only room for one 
> processor.

This was the U30, sold by Sun as their entry PCI desktop from 1997 to
1998.  It was quite a nice machine and has a heritage that lives on in the
U60 (Deuterium).

It was a full production machine and quite popular.

-James