On Aug 29, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Michael Bender wrote:
I have never seen a SPARCstation-3 [...]
We have some very "creative" marketing/product naming folks here :-).
Yes, unfortunately...they're your biggest handicap. :-( Someday I
hope to have the opportunity to smack the idiot who thought it'd be a
good idea to give a processor implementation the same name as a type of
leased line that's commonly used for Internet connectivity. Sigh.
> but I have seen several PCI based Ultra1's show up on eBay.
Yep, those are (were) cool little machines at the time. I had
several that I used when I was working on PCI-based PCMCIA
kernel drivers and controller code for Solaris/SPARC.
Yes they really are. Through the help of a former Sun employee, I
have a "good" OBP image loaded into the flash on mine, and it runs
quite nicely. I really like that machine. I'm sure they'd have sold
very well had they been released.
I forget what the history of those boxes were as to why we never
made them into a full-fledged product.
I was told that it was too "close" in capabilities to the Ultra30/60
and they didn't want it to hurt their sales. I don't know if there's
anything to that or not.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
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