matthew green wrote:

>
>    >By the way, is there any way to upgrade the processor in
>    >one of these older Sparc boxes?  I was able to add a 2nd processor
>    >to a SPARC 10, but was wondering if there is any upgrade path
>    >for the older boxes.   TIA.
>
>    You can upgrade the SS2 and the IPX to a Weitek PowerUp chip which runs
>    at 80Mhz. There does seem to be some talk in the mailling list archives
>    back in 1996 about problems with NetBSD after this upgrade. I'm not sure
>    if this was ever "fixed".
>
> problems?  i have run several powerup's in SS2's and an IPX over the
> years without incident...

Where do you get these chips, and how much are they?
(I'd like to do that).

thanks,
Paul.
Bureau of Met.





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