Re: What hardware does Solaris 10 SPARC support?

From: Dave (nospam_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 02/23/05

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    Dennis Grevenstein wrote:
    > In comp.sys.sun.hardware Dave <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:
    >
    >>I'm trying to find out if my somewhat old hardware will be OK on Solaris
    >> 10. My biggest concern is the Sun PCI II Pro card (733 MHz Celeron).
    >>Why I worry I do not know, as the thing is so damm slow, but it saves
    >>the hassle of starting a PC some times.
    >
    >
    > I have a Blade 1000 with that SunPCI II card up and running.
    >
    >
    >>about x86. I can't seem to find out a list of SPARC hardware supported.
    >>I know of course Sun 4m has been removed, but what else ??
    >
    >
    > systems with UtraSPARC I CPUs are unsupported.
    >
    >
    >>Does anyone know of any issues I might have with this lot.
    >
    >
    >>* A preference for CDE over GNOME!!!
    >
    >
    > It's still there. You can choose.
    >
    > mfg
    > Dennis
    >
    Thanks, that is good news at least. I'm pretty sure the rest will be
    okay myself, but you never know. That is why I am never too keen on OS
    upgrades, and tend to leave it a few months at least.

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