On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:21:35 +0000 
 Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:

ftp.uk.netbsd.org was a SS1, then an  IPC, and then an IPX 
[hopefully soon an Ultra1].

[ftp.uk is being rebuilt after a disk failure incidentally].

Regards,
Neil.

> John P. Refling wrote:
> > http://sun-www.picarefy.com/sun-www/OLD/index.html linked to on the
> > NetBSD site has not worked for the last several weeks (months?), at
> > least for me.
> 
> Hmm, I've used the copy at :
> 
> 	http://wugate.wustl.edu/~rachelle/sunhwfaq.html
> 
> which is still working.
> 
> > I have found some old suns, "IPX" on the box, but different board inside.
> > They use a large chip labelled GX and user 72 pin memory, as opposed
> > to the 30 pin memory I have seen on other IPC and IPX boxes.  Do
> > we support this machine?
> 
> The IPX is not the same as an IPC.  The IPC uses 30 pin SIMM's whilst the
> IPX uses 72 pin SIMM's.  The IPX also has an onboard cg6 frame buffer (the
> IPC has mono).  I think the graphics chip is a GX chip - so that could be
> the large chip on your board.  The IPX is supported by NetBSD
> 
> It's possible that you have something like a Cycle-5 upgrade - I'm not sure
> whether these are supported.  There is a picture of the Cycle-5 IPX upgrade
> board at :
> 
> 	http://www.phoenix.net/~iws/cyc5ip.html
> 
> J
> 
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