Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: jms@tardis.tymnet.com (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Putting a SPARCstation-2 CPU into your current Sun system. Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <692@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 8 Dec 90 22:07:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 33 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 90 15:46:58 PST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 395, message 12 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu In article hart@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Bill Hart) writes: >I've currently got an old 3/160, and possibly have some money around to do >something about it. What about sticking something like a SPARCengine2? At the Sun-Expo, Solflower Computer, Inc was showing a board that does just that. They have two type of S-Bus to VME adaptors. One is a run of the mill type device; plug one card into the S-Bus on a SPARCstation, plug the other card into your VME cardcage, and run the flat ribbon cable between them. Their newer adaptor is a lot more interesting. It is a 9U VME card that has a large area cut out. This cutout is the size and shape of a SPARCengine-2. (This is the exact same motherboard found in a SPARCstation-2, and can be purchased seperately from Sun.) So, this means that you can purchase a SPARCengine-2 board, connect it to the Solflower board, plug the whole thing into your 3/160 enclosure, and end up with something that runs faster than a SPARCserver-490 !!! The above observations are based on just a 5-minute visit to their booth, for more info contact them directly. #include Solflower Computer, Inc. 2362 Qume Drive, Suite A San Jose, CA 95131 Phone: (408)456-5055 Fax: (408)456-0625 Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: jms@tardis.tymnet.com or jms@gemini.tymnet.com BT Tymnet Tech Services | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-C51 | BIX: smithjoe | CA license plate: "POPJ P," (PDP-10) San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | humorous dislaimer: "My Amiga 3000 speaks for me."