[rescue] Wanted: 16M 72-pin parity SIMMs & Dell GXa CPU board/RAM

[Lionel Peterson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael-John Turner" <mj at turner.org.za>
To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Wanted: 16M 72-pin parity SIMMs & Dell GXa CPU 
board/RAM



> Yep, the GXa has a proprietary daughterboard for the second CPU (the
> other CPU is on the mobo). My machine has a CPU on the mobo and the
> "filler" in the place of the daughterboard. For some weird reason
> I'm a huge fan of the PPro, so I'd love to get a second CPU into
> my little GXa (which would admittedly be overkill, 'cos it's my
> firewall/router).

Why? Two CPUs for two network connections seems reasonable to me? ;^)

I have seen on Sun's website mention of the "one CPU per network connection" 
concept, but of course, that was for older boxes (mostly SBUS-based, I 
think) and may have been for more demanding applications than your own...