[rescue] Sun 486i (was: SunPC drivers for solaris and sunos)

[Richard]

Just on the below memory configuration. I know it isnbt supported but I have
a third board in my 386i/150 for a total of 12MB. Works like a charm :-).

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> On 21 Mar 2018, at 07:09, David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 20 March 2018 at 17:50, Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I had the misfortune to use a Sun 386i at Agfa one of our customers and
can
>> only remember it was the worst PC I had ever used, read slowest. It took
>> forever to do anything from memory.
>>
>
> IIRC there were two memory board options - the 150 had max 8MB without
> cache and the 250 a max 16MB with cache, which made a noticeable
> difference, even if both had 8MB.
> (I once had to benchmark whether it was worth upgrading the memory in
> around 50 sun386i boxes at City University :)
>
> Random recollection: The SunOS 4.0.2 they ran was an offshoot which had
> partially pageable kernel text which I remember being impressed by at the
> time, and those funky octopus video/keyboard/mouse cables. Of course some
> of the machines they were replacing were Whitechapel MG-1 workstations,
> which made them awesome in comparison...
>
> David
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