Aloha, Helping Scott go through the Sun hardware that has been donated and we came across a Sun Microsystem i386/250. It is pretty cool. I knew Sun made PCs for a little while, but I have never actually seen one. Has anyone here ever used one? It sounds like only SunOS 4.0.2 is the only OS that works with them. It is not a true PC so Linux doesn't work. Guess I'll have to track a copy SunOS 4.0.2 down!
Dusty Here is some information about them: http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick/sunshack/data/feh/1.5/wcd00094/wcd09478.ht m http://www.machine-room.org/computers/7298/technical.html http://www.sub.net.au/~ran/sun386i/sun386i-FAQ Sun 386i -------- OVERVIEW The Sun 386i models, based on the Intel 80386 processor, were introduced when 80386-based IBM PC/AT clones were starting to become widespread. Intel had finally produced a chip sufficiently capable (32-bit, among other things) to allow porting SunOS, and using an Intel processor and an ISA bus offered the ability to run MS-DOS applications without speed-draining emulation. Unfortunately, they were a dismal failure. Support for Sun-386i's was introduced in SunOS 4.0 (?). The 386i SunOS releases came from Sun's East Coast division, so 386i SunOS was not identical to the standard version with the same number. The last released version of SunOS to support Sun-386i's was 4.0.2; there are a few copies of 4.0.3Beta (with OpenLook 2.0) floating around. MODELS 386i/150 Processor(s): 80386 @ 20MHz, 80387, 80386 on-chip MMU, 3 MIPS, 0.17 MFLOPS CPU: 501-1241/1414 Chassis type: tower (20"H * 7"W * 16"D) Bus: 4 32-bit slots; ISA (3 16-bit, 1 8-bit) Memory: 8M physical Notes: Shared code name "Roadrunner" with the /250. The frame buffer was not on the ISA bus. 720K or 1.44M 3.5" floppy. A variant of the 150 had the 250's external cache. 386i/250 Processor(s): 80386 @ 25MHz, 80387, 80386 on-chip MMU, 5 MIPS, 0.2 MFLOPS CPU: 501-1324/1413 Chassis type: tower Bus: 4 32-bit slots; ISA (3 16-bit, 1 8-bit) Memory: 16M physical, 32K cache Notes: Shared code name "Roadrunner" with the /150. The frame buffer was not on the ISA bus. 720K or 1.44M 3.5" floppy. 486i Processor(s): 80486 Notes: Code-named "Apache". A very limited quantity of these were supposedly built and shipped to customers just before the Intel-based line was cancelled.
