Dear All,
Thanks very much to all the people who replied to me about
identifying old kit. There were far too many to list them all.
A lot of people told me how to do things like prtconf etc, but
had obviously not read the part of my original message which
said that I didn't want to have to load an OS just to find out
what hardware I had.
I got a number of useful web-site addresses, as follows:-
Sun Hardware FAQ
ftp://ftp.ececs.uc.edu/pub/sun-faq/FAQs/Hardware/
SPEC benchmarks
http://www.specbench.org
sysinfo
http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo/
Sun Hardware Reference
http://www.sunhelp.com.
Framebuffer FAQ
http://www.uark.edu/sunfaq/FrameBuffer.html
But the most useful comment came from Sam Vilain in New Zealand
<sam.vilain@nz.unisys.com>, who told me to do show-devs at the
ok prompt, which tells me what's installed without me having to
install any software at all.
Thanks to all concerned, and just for those who are interested,
I have succesfully installed Solaris 7 on such ancient boxes as
an IPC, IPX, and SS2's, and ir runs fine (if a little slowly).
Just try the equivalent on Intel/Windoze kit (NT Server 4.0 on
an 80286 maybe?), including jumpstart of course.
Matthew.
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