[rescue] Upgrading Ultra 2

[Bryan Gurney]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:46:40 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>  
wrote:

> On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Ron Wickersham wrote:
>
>> it's remarkable how truly useful a U2 is.  does anyone know if it came
>> out a long time before the two-processor PCI units like Ultra 30 or the
>> E220R which has the same motherboard as the Ultra 30?
>
> Supposedly there is a prototype Ultra2 with PCI somewhere at Sun.
>
> Aside from that, the first PCI SPARC was the OEM motherboard that Sun
> Microelectronics produced in late 1996.
>
> The U2 was launched Q4 1995 I believe, Ultra 30 was launched July 1997
> according to what I can find online.
>
> --Patrick

SunWorld, November 1995:  
http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-11-1995/swol-11-fusion.hardware.html

$60K for an Ultra 2 Creator back then?  Wow.