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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!js From: js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 11 Dec 1996 19:29:58 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 48 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <58n23m$65i$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <58jaum$er7@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <58k1qs$1ht@cucumber.demon.co.uk> <casper.32adc0c3@mail.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.149.25.72 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:92197 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1770 comp.unix.osf.osf1:16992 In article <casper.32adc0c3@mail.fwi.uva.nl>, Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl> wrote: >andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) writes: > >>In article <58jaum$er7@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de>, >> borchert@turing.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert) writes: >>> >>>Sun 2 binaries may be run on Sun 3 workstations. I do not know anything >>>about the Sun 1 to Sun 2 transition except that both are based on >>>the m68k processor family -- so probably there was compatiblity as well. > >>I'm not aware that Sun 1's were ever sold outside >>Standford University Network. I worked for Sun's UK distributer >>when the Sun 2 came out, and I think that was the first model >>which was available for general sale. > >I'm pretty sure the University of Amsterdam did buy one at some >point in time. It was later upgraded to a Sun 2 (only a board swap >so it still looked like a Sun 1). It was later returned to the >Sun office here (and it's gathering dust). I worked for H.Berthold AG in 1985 which has been the first Sun OEM in Europe. We got our first machine in April 1985. It was a machine with a Multi-Bus that came in two cabinets. The first looked (inside) very similar to an NCR-Tower with many loose cables inside. The second was connected to the first by two 50 wire cables contained the SMD-disks. The keyboard was connected to the machine with a parralel port that was polled during the vertical blanking of the monitor. (Called KB-klunk : still present in some .h files) The operating system was something pre 2.x. Some months later (~ August ) we got our first real Sun-2's. This have been 2/120 (I belive) and they got upgraded to Sun 3/160 later. This could easily done because thay had the same cabinets as the Sun 3/160. Joerg -- EMail: joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 jes@fokus.gmd.de (work) chars my name is URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling J"org Schilling