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Date:      Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:14:51 -0400
From:      Paul Murphy <paul.murphy@cogeco.ca>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: for dutch FreeBSD hackers wanting to get SUN hardware
Message-ID:  <20040611071451.00858117@earth.upton.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10406110629340.19056-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
References:  <p06002023bcef357ec208@[10.0.1.3]> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10406110629340.19056-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>

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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 06:31:39 -0400 (EDT)
Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 
> > At 6:00 AM -0400 2004-06-11, Paul Murphy wrote:
> > 
> > >   I almost bought a Sun workstation a a computer show but could
> > >   not see
> > >  if a regular (PC) monitor would plug in to a Sun. They were
> > >  selling Sun monitors at the table but they were more than I was
> > >  willing to spend on'experimental' computer equipment.
> > >
> > >   So my question is: will PC peripherals attach to a Sun box?
> > 
> > 	Depends on the box.  For UltraSPARC 5s, the answer is most 
> > definitely yes -- Sun built them with mostly standard PC components,
> > including VGA output, PCI card slots, IDE hard drives & CD-ROM 
> > drives, DIMM slots, PS/2 keyboard & mouse connectors, etc....  About
> > the only non-PC standard component was the CPU.
> 
> You can get adapters that convert from vga to sun video, and
> from sun keyboard/mouse to PS/2 keyboard mouse.  Raritan
> (www.raritan.com) makes them, and can probably get cheaper
> alternatives elsewhere.
> 
> 
> 

 (Note: Sylpheed crashed when I sent my last reply so if this a
duplicate I beg your pardon)

 I am glad now that I thought twice about buying the Sun box. I was
definitely and older (used) machine. With these comments in mind I will
be seriously temped to buy one at the next Compufest just for the fun of
getting FreeBSD up an running.

-- 
Cogeco ergo sum



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