[geeks] motorolla powerstack?

Jonathan Katz geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Aug 8 15:19:27 CDT 2001


Josh fessed up:
> It is a PPC based machine.  They are kinda nifty and will even run
> solaris.  Linux seems to be a more common choice though.  I think the
> original native OS was either AIX or something really strange. 

Yeah, originally they ran AIX... we had one when I was contracting at
Objy. Not the fastest PPC boxes around, though. If you can find Solaris/PPC
it would be worth it to be an oddball and run that.
 
> You should try to get it going.  I don't think ram would be that hard for
> you to find, and they are fairly fun little boxes.

Yeah... it performed decent. Just takes normal 50pin SCSI, right? And 72pin
SIMMs?

-Jon



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