From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net (Gregg C Levine)
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 18:16:33 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Sprite
In-Reply-To: <20040530174621.3fea7782.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
Message-ID: <001301c44693$c5961260$6401a8c0@who5>

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Okay, now this begs the question: Can the VAX Station boot code which
is targeted to that specific system, be rewritten to accommodate the
VAX processor that SIMH emulates? I am not a good C programmer, just a
whatever comes before that. I can only offer these suggestions, and
ask these questions. 

For that matter, do any of us have any of the SUN hardware that I do
know Sprite ran on? Or that VAX Station? For me, its no to all three.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org
[mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On
> Behalf Of Jochen Kunz
> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 11:46 AM
> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Sprite
> 
> On Sun, 30 May 2004 09:19:39 -0400
> Aharon Robbins <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
> 
> > > There where several ports: Sun3, Sun4 / SPARC, DECstation, SPUR,
> > > Sequent Symmetry at least. Even mixed architecture clusters
where
> > > supported. See
> > > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/sprite/retrospective.html
> > Wasn't the Symmetry a 386 based system?
> Yes.
> 
> > Could Sprite be "revived" for the modern PC?  Just wondering ...
> Most likely no. The Sequent Symmetry machines had only one thing in
> common with a PeeCee: The Intel 80386DX chip. Everything else was
custom
> Sequent architecture.
> 
> And by the way: I have hands on experience with a 8 CPU Sequent
Symmetry
> S27. It cost over 900000 DM (today about 500000 US$) in 1989 and had
a
> much slower disk and network interface as the Sun 3/260. It was an
> overpriced snail.
> --
> 
> 
> tschüß,
>        Jochen
> 
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