[rescue] The joys of 4.1.2

Kurt Mosiejczuk kurt at csh.rit.edu
Wed Jun 5 08:33:48 CDT 2002


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> > laptop to an amazing Sparc IPC with 24 Meg o ram. This sucker kicks ass.

> If memory serves you could upgrade it to solaris 2.6 which would give you
> a reasonably compatible X. I would upgrade it to 32 meg if you can. AFIK the
> IPX uses the 4x9 SIMs that were used in 486 PCs and may be hard to find.
> However if you are just running X, without a lot of other things (such as
> CDE) you can do okay with 2.6 and 24meg.

You probably just typoed above... his is IPC, IPXs take 72-pin SIMMs that
are 33-bit.  Although 36-bit will work.

--Kurt



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