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echo: classic_computer
to: Kurt Weiske
from: Blake Patterson
date: 2019-06-16 11:00:00
subject: Sun Computer

 KW>  AB>     My 32-bit SPARCstations are long-since recycled.  A lunchbox SPAR
 KW>  AB> wouldn't take up much space but the cooling wasn't great on them.  I
 KW>  AB> have a soft spot for the SLC and ELC but either of those would be har
 KW>  AB> for me to justify today.
 KW> 
 KW> I'd heard that about Lunchbox SPARCs, but still loved the LX. I had a
 KW> Sparc 2 in a Pizza box case, with the big 19" CRT and a type 5 keyboard.
 KW> That was my first desktop Sparc, and I loved it...

In college we had some i386-based Solaris machines. Towers. They would run
DOS/Windows in a window on the Solaris desktop -- but the machines were dogs,
and I feel pretty certain they wouldn't boot straight into DOS or Windows,
lacking PC BIOS. I know of no Sun machine that will natively boot DOS or
Windows, and almost all of them are SPARC-based, an architecture that never
received a Windows port.

bp
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