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Well the SPARC ethernet is BOUND to be a lot better than the Pi's ;-)

by buserror 11y ago

fit2rule 11y ago
Good luck plugging in any peripherals to that SPARC machine though ..
- buserror 11y ago
  Heheh yeah I'll look smart with my USB keyboard ;-) On the other hand, for the time the sparcs were pretty advanced, high speed SCSI (whoohoo ;-)), they had the famous RS422 ports that were also on the macs and allowed (synchronous) 2Mb/s. I had a Sun 3/80 back then in 1991 or so, given to me by a Sun rep when the SPARC came out; it was already fantastic hardware to have in my bedroom! I'm still hooked on the Sun hi-dpi console font (still present in linux)
  - fit2rule 11y ago
    I was more of an SGI guy, having cut my Unix teeth on Risc/OS on a MIPS Magnum pizza box, still got my O2, wish I still had my stack of Indy's .. but I can nevertheless understand the love for these old machines. What a pity those guys didn't compete for the pocket, eh?
- kjs3 11y ago
  The SS20 had serial and SCSI ports, numerous multimedia ports, video expansion from 8-bit 1152x900 to muti-monitor accelerated 3d 24-bit color, and hundreds of different SBus expansion cards. And from a processor perspective, you could (technically) start with a single 33Mhz processor and expand to 4 x 200MHz processors (from Ross) without dumping any investment. Very few computers had as long a useful lifespan as the SS20, and if they weren't so power hungry they'd likely still be in production all sorts of places.
kjs3 11y ago
That's a low bar to hurtle. :-) That said, the SS20 was from the before time when 10Mb ethernet was standard. There were 100Mb SBus add-on cards of various configs which worked very well, and I recall SX and LX fiber 1Gb cards that I never used. I had a lot of experience with OC-3 (155Mb) ATM on the SS-20 (nice setup), and there was an OC-12 card (622Mb) that pretty much crushed all the CPU you could throw at it just to move packets. Those were really intended for the 600-series servers, so not surprising.

Well the SPARC ethernet is BOUND to be a lot better than the Pi's ;-)

fit2rule 11y ago

Good luck plugging in any peripherals to that SPARC machine though ..

buserror 11y ago
Heheh yeah I'll look smart with my USB keyboard ;-) On the other hand, for the time the sparcs were pretty advanced, high speed SCSI (whoohoo ;-)), they had the famous RS422 ports that were also on the macs and allowed (synchronous) 2Mb/s. I had a Sun 3/80 back then in 1991 or so, given to me by a Sun rep when the SPARC came out; it was already fantastic hardware to have in my bedroom! I'm still hooked on the Sun hi-dpi console font (still present in linux)
- fit2rule 11y ago
  I was more of an SGI guy, having cut my Unix teeth on Risc/OS on a MIPS Magnum pizza box, still got my O2, wish I still had my stack of Indy's .. but I can nevertheless understand the love for these old machines. What a pity those guys didn't compete for the pocket, eh?
kjs3 11y ago
The SS20 had serial and SCSI ports, numerous multimedia ports, video expansion from 8-bit 1152x900 to muti-monitor accelerated 3d 24-bit color, and hundreds of different SBus expansion cards. And from a processor perspective, you could (technically) start with a single 33Mhz processor and expand to 4 x 200MHz processors (from Ross) without dumping any investment. Very few computers had as long a useful lifespan as the SS20, and if they weren't so power hungry they'd likely still be in production all sorts of places.

kjs3 11y ago

That's a low bar to hurtle. :-) That said, the SS20 was from the before time when 10Mb ethernet was standard. There were 100Mb SBus add-on cards of various configs which worked very well, and I recall SX and LX fiber 1Gb cards that I never used. I had a lot of experience with OC-3 (155Mb) ATM on the SS-20 (nice setup), and there was an OC-12 card (622Mb) that pretty much crushed all the CPU you could throw at it just to move packets. Those were really intended for the 600-series servers, so not surprising.