* Eiji Ota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010118 18:12]: > The price of Netra X1 sounds so attractive to me, and it's a pity > it uses different chips. But I have patience with a bit hope.;)
You'll have to be patient anyways... I spoke with a Sun sales rep on the phone this morning (when they finally called me back), and she said that it wasn't actually shipping until March 6th or 7th or so. > When I checked the pdf file in > www.sun.com/netra/whitepapers/NetraX1.pdf, I found Netra X1 doesn't > have any U2Ps and any UPA buses and I was surprised. Is it right ? > UltraSPARCIIe can handle a PCI bus directly without a bridge chip ? > If so, actually the architecture is different from what I'm familiar > with. Hmm... having not seen or played with one, I'm not too terribly sure about it, but if memory serves me, it's got something like a VIA southbridge on it.
