[TUHS] Release of 8th, 9th and 10th Editions Unix

[rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich)]

This is pretty nice summary:
http://sunstuff.org/hardware/systems/sun3/sun3/3-50/ and
http://sunstuff.org/hardware/systems/sun3/sun3/3-280/

I'm always amazed at what's out there.

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:47 AM Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net> wrote:

> Not according to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-3
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> The 3/50 was indeed a "pizza box" according to this, but Brad Spencer's
> images 7A and 7B he purports these are 3/50 boards:
> http://anduin.eldar.org/~brad/sunstuff/ - and those are definitely VME
> form-factor. Although, it's possible it uses only that "custom/private"
> third connector on the VME backplane?
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> On 3/28/2017 11:38 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
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> I *think* the 3/50 had a VME bus. As I recall, it was basically a single
> VME board mounted inside of a pizzabox case.
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> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:23:49AM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> > Is the 3/50 that much different than a 3/280?
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> Different bus structure as I recall.  The 3/50 were workstations,
> the 3/280 was big rack mounted VME (?) based system, mostly used
> as file servers.
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