Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>>> No. Officially, all SPARC workstations older than Ultra 25/45 are EOL
>>> and not supported on anything newer than Solaris 10. The Ultra 5/10
>>> use the same m64 driver for the onboard graphics as the Sun Blade
>>> 100/150.
>
> This really does bother me. There are quite a few people in the world that
> have decent Sparc based workstations with fairly decent graphics systems
> in them. Let's forget the "people" for a moment and look at some very
> large corporations out there, like Siemens. Now those guys use Sparc
> based workstations with
>
> Sun Ultra[tm] 27 Workstation:
> * Intel Xeon 3500 series Quad-Core Processors
> * NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 graphics accelerator (quantity one)
> * NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 graphics accelerator (quantity two)
> * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 graphics accelerator (quantity two)
> * NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 graphics accelerator (quantity two)
I've never seen a SPARC based workstation with an Intel Xeon processor.
Don't let the Ultra name fool you, there's nothing SPARC about an Ultra 27.
Sun hasn't sold a SPARC workstation since 2008.
> Perhaps the real issue us that Oracle/Sun forgot what the community was all
> about and are now simply in product mode thinking and supported product talk.
Sun laid off the engineers and cut the support for those workstations well
before Oracle made it's offer to buy the company.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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