31 May
2004
31 May
'04
12:16 a.m.
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Okay, now this begs the question: Can the VAX Station boot code which
is targeted to that specific system, be rewritten to accommodate the
VAX processor that SIMH emulates? I am not a good C programmer, just a
whatever comes before that. I can only offer these suggestions, and
ask these questions.
For that matter, do any of us have any of the SUN hardware that I do
know Sprite ran on? Or that VAX Station? For me, its no to all three.
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org
[mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On
Behalf Of Jochen Kunz
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 11:46 AM
To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Sprite
On Sun, 30 May 2004 09:19:39 -0400
Aharon Robbins <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
> > There where several ports: Sun3, Sun4 / SPARC, DECstation, SPUR,
> > Sequent Symmetry at least. Even mixed architecture clusters
where
Wasn't the
Symmetry a 386 based system?
Yes.
Could Sprite be "revived" for the
modern PC? Just wondering ...
Most likely no. The Sequent Symmetry machines had
only one thing in
common with a PeeCee: The Intel 80386DX chip. Everything else was Sequent architecture.
And by the way: I have hands on experience with a 8 CPU Sequent
Symmetry
S27. It cost over 900000 DM (today about 500000 US$)
in 1989 and had
a
much slower disk and network interface as the Sun
3/260. It was an
overpriced snail.
--
tschüß,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
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