Re: [slackware-sparcdevel] Those PCI-enabled 32-bit SPARCs

From: Charles Fultz (fultz@cs.purdue.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 05:28:05 PST


> I know we had a long discussion about these machines and whether or not
> they really exist. Well, I found they do exist and that Sun actually made
> PCI-enabled 32-bit SPARC systems. I felt really stupid when I finally
> figured it out...
>
> Anyone remember the JavaStation line? :)
>
> Those are the machines in question. They are CPU equivalent to a SS4 or
> SS5 and have a stripped down PCI bus to drive the PS/2 mouse and keyboard.
> And they were made by Sun. It never ever occurred to me to look at those
> machines.

Well, I'll be a son of b...., that would be the machines! Damn, I
never even thought about those machines, since they were pretty much a
bad joke.

Well, what to do now?

Charles



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