30 May
2004
30 May
'04
9:46 p.m.
On Sun, 30 May 2004 09:19:39 -0400
Aharon Robbins <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Yes.
There where
several ports: Sun3, Sun4 / SPARC, DECstation, SPUR,
Sequent Symmetry at least. Even mixed architecture clusters where
supported. See
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/sprite/retrospective.html
Wasn't the
Symmetry a 386 based system? 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 custom
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.
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tschüß,
Jochen
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