[SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC

[Dave McGuire]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Paul Khoury - Tech Support wrote:
>>>I can come up with a SPARC5 or similar.  What are the specs on this Multia?
>>
>>  You'll trade an SS5 for a Multia?  I'm gonna go get me a pile of
>Multias! ;)
>
>Alpha 166MHz, I think it's a 21264 or something like that.
>I think I have 16MB parity in there now, but could put in 24MB,
>has SCSI, SVGA, sound, parallel, serial, PCMCIA, 2.5" HD...
>
>Small footprint, built-in ethernet (aui, tp, bnc)...

  ...and slower than pissing tar.  21066, not 21264.  My 175MHz 21064 (older,
first-generation Alpha processor) box (AS1000) consistently ran rings around my
233MHz 21066-based Multia.  That's why I got rid of it. :)

             -Dave McGuire