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> Does anyone happen to have any old ram kicking around for a SPARC 3/60
> that they would like to sell by any chance?
Two notes:
1. That's a Sun 3/60, not a SPARC 3/60. The Sun 4 series had the
Sparc processors; the 3 series uses a 68020 processor with a custom
MMU (except for the 3/80, which was in the same case as a Sparcstation
1 and used a 68030 with the internal MMU).
2. Those are 30-pin, 1 MB "true parity" SIMMs that you want.
Generally the three-chip ones don't work; you need the nine-chip
ones. They go in in banks of four, starting closest to the CPU,
and there's a set of jumpers to set the memory size.
Just out of curiousity, what do you intend to do with your Sun 3,
and what OS are you running on it. And to bring the topic back to
Linux, does Linux run on these yet? (If not, and you're going to
attach it to the Internet, you probably want to install NetBSD on
it; SunOS 4 hasn't been maintained for years and so security holes
have not been fixed and new features have not been added. I'm of
course happy to help out anyone who needs a NetBSD install, and
can probably answer a lot of your questions even if you're installing
Linux.)
cjs
Curt Sampson
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