Subject: Re: Cheap SPARCstation 5's
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/21/1997 20:11:51
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:25:05 -0800
Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> wrote:
> (Of course, I'm still grappling with the fact that there's still the reality
> that the same $3000 could buy me a PentiumPro 200 box with Fast/Wide SCSI
> and twice the SPECint as the SS5/170 (-: )
...wow, that's a darn good deal :-)
> Along these lines, what is the current (1.2/-current) state of audio support
> in NetBSD for the SS5 again? (According to the announcement, all of the other
> non-CPU bits in the Model 170 are exactly the same as in the 110 MHz SS5.)
Well, AFAIK, the Sun4m audio is not supported; though, it may be pretty
easy to do, given proper documentation.
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