[Sunhelp] Mhz rating for chip?

james james at foonly.com
Sat Dec 11 03:59:36 CST 1999


On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> Probably the easiest way it to go into the PROM and type 'module-info'
> which should give you whatever info you want. 

This will work for sun4m/sun4d only.  Use .speed for newer systems (sun4u)
and for older systems you must use psrinfo from within the OS (though
you can figure out everything you need from the poweron banner).

> Not really.  Sunhelp.org (you know, the place that hosts the list) has a
> nice Sun Hardware Reference there, that you should read through.  It's
> some REALLY good information.  To answer your questions, SPARCStation 2
> is the oldest, then SS5, then SS10.  The SS10 has the most posibilities,

The SS10 came out before the SS5.  The order of release of the sun4m
pizzaboxes was SS10, SS20, SS5, SS4.  The SS10 was the high-end solution
at the time and the SS5 was the low end, so it's possible for an older
SS10 to be more capable.

-James







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