Re: Sun SPARCStation 20.

retrocomtoday@xxxxxxx writes:
Excuse me for sounding dumb, but I've just picked up the above machine
with three external SCSI drives, an optical mouse and keyboard, and a
21" massive monitor. I've no idea what spec this machine is, what it
does or what it is useful for, so any advice, help or pointers are
welcome.

This was quite the workstation for the early 1990's.

The CPUs ranged from 50MHz up to 170MHz, you could have up to 4 in
some configurations (only 2 MBUS slots though).

You should be able to run Solaris 8 on it. Mostly you can run SunOS v4.1.x
or Solaris 2.3 through 2.8. It'll run NetBSD or some versions of linux too.

Its a SPARC CPU. You should be able to find more info in the Sun
Hardware Service Manual

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/801-6189-12

As well as many sites around the Net, as it was quite a popular
machine for its time.



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