Subject: Re: 3/60 SCSI Problem
To: Erik E. Fair \(Time Keeper\) <fair@clock.org>
From: Eric McCormack <earthshaker@datatek.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 10/24/1996 22:14:03
Erik E. Fair (Time Keeper) wrote:
>
> At 21:46 -0700 10/22/96, naamato@merit.edu wrote:
>
> >And, what's this I hear about some late 3/60 models shipped with a 68030?
>
> That would be the 3/80. Since it has a different architecture than the
> 68020 machines (had to do something with that MMU and cache!), NetBSD won't
> run on it yet. There were rumours of someone working on it, but I haven't
> seen anything here about it in quite some time.
>
> Erik
The Sun 3/60 HAS a socket (or at least the pinouts for the socket) for
the 030 on its motherboard. Simple hack of installing a socket and the
chip. Not recommended, though. The rest of the 3/60 HW doesn't exploit
the advantages of the 030 and the speed incrase is nonexistent.
naamato@merit.edu could be referring to hacks of this sort.
My $0.02 worth.
Eric