[rescue] Upgrading Ultra 2

[Ahmed Ewing]

On 4/18/07, 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.
>
>From the Nitpick Dept: I always thought the prototype PCI mule was a
uniproc, U1-based box... IIRC it was codenamed "Positron", keeping in
step with the "Electron" (U1 and U1E) / "Pulsar" (U2) / "Quark" (U30)
/ "Deuterium" (U60) / "Quasar" (U80) naming convention of the period.

-A