[rescue] News from the Sun Front: Graphics

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:53:27PM -0500, George Adkins wrote:
> I'd rather have the quad, personally, but I can see where you're coming 
> from...  what the heck is an UltraSparc III Cu ? 
> Does the Cu stand for Celeron unit?  If this is another one of those 
> castrated processors like the Ultrasparc IIi or IIIe, then I'm not 
> interested.  

Cu = Copper.

Copper interconnect technology.  Runs cooler, for one thing.

> The 8 meg cache per proc is acceptable, I'm not sure about the FC-AL disk 
> thing, I'd rather that it had a good old fashioned U2W or U160 SCSI bus in 
> the thing... Does it? 

Has external scsi bus.  (I've got two of the SB1000s, which are almost-
identical).

> Uh-Oh, yep, SCSI only if you buy the ultrawide PCI card...

Uhm, weird.  The SB1000 has a SCSI bus port on the back panel. 68pin.

> Oh Boy! it uses creepy proprietary 232 pin SDRAM not-DIMMs, so all the 128 
> Meg 200 pin Ultra memory I already have is Useless!  Yay!

That Ultra RAM is probably too *slow* for the system.  Think about it.

> No, I'd rather _not_ have the sun's latest Packard Bell ^H^H^H I mean Ultra 5 
> ^H^H^H I mean cheap PCI workstation.  (or was that the BunSplayed 1000)  

You should take a look at the SB1000.  Its an entirely different class of
machine than the U5/U10/SB100.  *entirely*.    

The SB2000 is just a slightly-different SB1000 with the Cu processors.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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