28 Mar
2017
28 Mar
'17
6:18 p.m.
This is pretty nice summary:
http://sunstuff.org/hardware/systems/sun3/sun3/3-50/ and
http://sunstuff.org/hardware/systems/sun3/sun3/3-280/
I'm always amazed at what's out there.
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:47 AM Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
Not according to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-3
The 3/50 was indeed a "pizza box" according to this, but Brad Spencer's
images 7A and 7B he purports these are 3/50 boards:
http://anduin.eldar.org/~brad/sunstuff/ - and those are definitely VME
form-factor. Although, it's possible it uses only that "custom/private"
third connector on the VME backplane?
On 3/28/2017 11:38 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
I *think* the 3/50 had a VME bus. As I recall, it was basically a single
VME board mounted inside of a pizzabox case.
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:23:49AM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
Is the 3/50 that much different than a 3/280?
Different bus structure as I recall. The 3/50 were workstations,
the 3/280 was big rack mounted VME (?) based system, mostly used
as file servers.