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From: dank@tybalt.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Solbourne
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 7 Oct 89 05:39:56 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 158, message 6 of 21

In article <1667@brazos.Rice.edu> tim@vicom.com (Tim Richardson) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 133, message 8 of 9
>Not only does Solbourne not have a completely compatible software release
>with 100% of Sun software, they aren't even hardware compatible...

We have been using three Solbourne 4/501's for two months now, with no
compatibility problems.  We are currently running CAD tools from Valid
(GED) and Gateway (Verilog); their Sun4 releases linked and ran without
incident on our machines.  As far as our application programs are
concerned, Solbournes are quite compatible.

I also relish having an underworked technical support team to call upon
when I need help with Unix.  Calling Solbourne's 800 number gets you
connected immediately with an engineer.

I have not done any kernel hacking or hardware work, so I can't comment on
compatibility in those areas.