gull
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Apr 26 03:46 UTC 2000 |
I have a SPARCstation SLC, so I can give you a little info. It's a Sun 4/20
architecture, meaning it's a SPARC processor running at 20 MHz. It has no
built in disk of any kind; they were meant to either be connected to an
external SCSI disk or (more commonly) network booted off a central server.
Video is a black-and-white framebuffer driving the internal 17" monitor. It
also has 12-bit uLaw sound, two serial ports (on one DB-25 connector), and
an AUI network port. 16 megabytes, in the form of 4 4-meg parity SIMMs, is
the maximum amount of RAM. The serial port pins are configured so a normal
cable plugged into the DB-25 port will connect to the proper pins for port
A. Port B requires a special splitter cable.
IIRC this was Sun's first computer that sold for under $6,000. It features
completely silent operation. (No built-in disk, and no fan.)
It will run Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or SunOS 4.1.4, all of them slowly.
No, I don't want another one. ;>
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