[rescue] who here is familiar with turbosparc 170's?

[Mike Nicewonger]

On Wednesday 08 May 2002 10:55 pm, you wrote:
> > What can you tell about these?
>
> They're pretty stinkin' fast--slightly faster than
> an SS20/single SM71 based on SPEC-CINT95.  Otherwise
> they're pretty much like any other sun4m, just with
> TurboSPARC instead of MicroSPARC/SuperSPARC.  It's been
> a while since I had one around to play with.  Only
> negative thing I remember someone else complaining about
> is that they tended to run hot compared to 75/85/110
> SS5 systems.
>
> > Do they run OpenBSD ok?
>
> I thought that they hadn't in the past, and I'd never
> tried to.  Based on the SPARC page at
>   http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html
> it looks as though all is well, though.  There's
> a specific listing for
>   SS5: TurboSPARC cpus in accelerated SS5 machines, running at 170 MHz
> as "supported" under the sun4m section.

they work fine under OpenBSD one of my DNS boxes is running on a Tatung 170 
clone with OBSD.

Linux still does not work on them.

Mike N