[rescue] ?? Sun Ultra5 emulation, was: more sun2 adventures!

[Mike Loewen]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Steve Rikli wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 07:38:02PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> On 1/8/19 4:15 PM, JP Hindin wrote:
>>>> An Ultra-5 disk will work as-is in an Ultra-10 - direct transplant. I
>>>> only mention this as my 20-year-old overclocked (472MHz) Ultra-10, still
>>>> fully working, went to a new home and owner in December, after serving me
>>>> faithfully for 14 years.
>>>
>>> I did not know this - while I have a large array of Suns, the work I've
>>> done with them has actually been limited to very specific tasks and
>>> there's mountains of stuff that is "duh" to any Sun admin that I'm
>>> clueless about.
>>
>>   Unless I'm misremembering, the Ultra5 (not SPARCstation-5) and Ultra10
>> are the same machine in a different chassis.
>
> You're not misremembering -- that's indeed the deal.
>
> Iirc the Ultra10 may have been sold for a while with faster UltraSPARC-II
> CPUs as an option (440MHz, I think?), and possibly higher-density DIMMs(?),
> which weren't available then in the Ultra5, but I think they eventually
> caught up again there too.

    I upgraded my Ultra 10 with a Ultra SPARC-IIi @ 440MHz, 1GB RAM and Elite3D 
m3 video board.  It originally came with 256MB RAM, a 300MHZ CPU and a Creator 
3D Series 3 FFB+.  I have a Ultra SCSI 3 card for it around here, somewhere.


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