On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:41:35AM -0400, nickm@mindless.com wrote:
> Well i just bought my first sparc!

Good choice - it's a very reliable machine, although quite slow when
compared to pentium systems.

> does an ss1+ have a built in frame buffer or would i have to buy one
> of those as well?

There's no frame buffer integrated to the motherboard, so if all the
SBus slots are empty, you haven't got one. ;)

> 3. any stability problems with netbsd on ss1+'s?

NetBSD 1.2 (XXX) #1: Sun Nov 17 17:46:19 EET 1996

 3:47PM  up 319 days, 19:04, 14 users, load averages: 0.20, 0.15, 0.09

:-)

> 4. i assume that it has a fast narrow scsi-2 adapter with it.  what about
> using external scsi disks?  any way to use a wide or ultra disk with an ss1?

Yes, it has an 8-bit SCSI interface.  External disks should be fine.  SS1
has two internal 50-pin connectors for internal disks.

Don't know about wide SCSI, sorry.

> 5. anything that doesnt work that i should know about?  does X work?  etc...

Yes, X works well.  If it were a faster machine, if would be just great.. :-)

> any good info sources on where i can get details about the hardware on
> ss1's?  the bus type, add on adapters, scsi adapter info, ethernet adapter
> info, etc 

Sun hardware FAQ?  Haven't got the URL here..

  -jm