[rescue] Re: 224 mhz sparc 20?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Aug 1 12:56:25 CDT 2002


On August 1, Big Endian wrote:
> >>  >   Ahh, the FPA!  I really liked those boards.  Brian Hechinger just
> >>  > started hacking on one...hes toying with the idea of writing NetBSD
> >>  > support for it.
> >>
> >>  Don't you also have one?  I thought you showed it to me.
> >
> >   I have several FPAs (I have probably 250 Sun 9U VME boards)...but the
> >board I was showing off to you that day was a TAAC, basically a VLIW
> >processor with video capability.  Fascinating hardware.
> 
> MMMMMM.... is it just me or has modern hardware lost that... wonderous nature?

  Well, there's some modern stuff that's that nice.  The really big Suns
and SGIs for example.

      -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire                     "...it's all pants, all the time."
St. Petersburg, FL                                   -Joshua Boyd



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