On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 09:20 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Mattias Wadenstein (maswan@acc.umu.se) wrote: > > >Even in 1995 4GB would have been a rather expensive amount of ram even > > >for a high end sparc or power machine. > > > > Well, instead of searching for prices, go find an old manual of the > > largest sun sparc32 smp? The one I can think of right now is the ss1000, > > were there any bigger ones? Before the ultrasparc days that is. > > SparcCenter 2000, we had one here actually. 10 system boards, up to 2 > procs each (as I recall we had 16 processors in ours), 0, 8 or 16 SIMMs > per board which were 8M or 32M. I believe we had the 8 system boards > that had CPUs full with 32M SIMMs for a total of 4G. I'm pretty sure > the system was capable of going to 32 CPUs w/ the dual-CPU modules. I'm > not sure if you could get more than 4G of memory in to it though. Well, I guess that answers my question, then. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "A great many open minds should be closed for repairs." Toledo Blade Newspaper
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