[rescue] Curious about an ss1000E

[Mike Nicewonger]

on 5/20/02 7:02 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 at patrick at .zill.net
wrote:

> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:43:27PM -0400, Janos wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Someone is offering me an ss1000e gratis and I was just wondering how big it
>> is, how heavy it is and what it eats (110V or 220V?). I found an old posting
>> (http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2001-February/007445.html
>> <http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2001-February/007445.html> ) and
>> thought that someone at this address might be able to help.
> 
> No doubt someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I believe it is
> the same as an SS1000 without the ability to use the 2MB L2 cache
> versions of some Sparc CPUs.
> 
> It is the size of a large PC turned on its side and with about 4 extra
> inches added to the height of the resulting box.
> 
> The machine is quite heavy, but takes normal 110V AC.  I think it is
> about 85 pounds.
> 
> They are quite nice, and can be used in up to an 8-way CPU
> configuration.  The fastest CPU's are SM81-2's, which are 85Mhz with
> 2MB e-cache.
> 

Yepper Patrick, commencement to  correction. The only Sun machine that can
use the 2 MB cache CPU's fully is the SC2000. Other M-bus machines can use
the CPU, just not the second MB of cache.

Mike N