[rescue] HAL HS-330

[Zach Malone]

I have a HAL SL100 right here that uses a standard Sun AXi board, so not all
of the machines are proprietary.
    Zach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez" <lefa at cats.ucsc.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] HAL HS-330


> On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:05:45AM -0600, Eric Hall wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > > I won a HAL HS-330 at an auction. Does anyone know where I can find
> > > any information on this beast? I bid on it in a moment of weakness,
> > > never dreaming I'd get it for next to nothing. I guess running a BSD
> > > on it is out of the question, so I will probably end up taking it
apart,
> > > for the drives and memory. Are these parts compatable with any other
> > > workstation? ANY info appreciated.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Eric H
> >
> > Its basically a SPARCstation 20 clone in a funky pyramidial case.  CPUs
> > are mBus, expansion slots are SBus, RAM should be the same as a SS20,
> > hard drives are SCSI, etc.. will run "normal" solaris.
> >
>
> No, you are thinking of a ROSS hyperstation. The HAL's were based on the
> 1st 64bit SPARC implementations (SPARC/64). They were released during the
> same time as the sparcstation 20. But they are absolutely not compatible
> with any SUN workstation. They have SBUS though. HALStations will not run
> "normal" solaris.
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