Toru Nishimura wrote:
> 
> Hello, SPARC folks.
> 
> I'm about to turn off SPARCcenter electricity due to the end of life
> (asset cycle) and retire it from duty within a few days.  According to
> NetBSD/sparc WEB page SPARCcenter is categolized as one of unsupported
> models.  Is it worth trying to run NetBSD/sparc on it, or just a pipe
> dream???  What's the technical obstracle to do that?  Without
> appropriate action, it will be dumped in a straight fashion as nCUBE
> or Challeges as we discarded recently.
> 
>    sun4d w/ 4x TI,TMS390Z550 SuperSPARC, 327680KB memory, Fibre Channel RAID
> 
> It is pre-ULTRA-age, runs slowly.
> 
> Tohru Nishimrura

I'll be glad to take it, if you can't find something to do with it. If
you are really wanting to you can probably get a BSD or Linux flavor up
and running on it.

-Gerald

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