Subject: Re: S4000DX
To: Thomas Prescott <prescott@www.uwstout.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/25/1996 10:52:03
On Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:35:22 -0500
Thomas Prescott <prescott@www.uwstout.edu> wrote:
> The workstations are Solbourne Computer Workstation S4000DX
> the boot rom is version 2.1. The work stations are currently
> running the old 4.3 Sun OS.
Ekk, Solbourne's SunOS was modified, if I recall ... the Solbourne was a
slightly different breed of cat from your standard SPARCstation hardware.
It's quite likely that a few changes will have to be made in order for
NetBSD/sparc to boot on it.
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