Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix on Sun?
References: <6FrzSGA6SkE3EwCh@dbqa.demon.co.uk> <slrn7h4jfc.gbg.pino+comp_os_minix@mud.stack.nl>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
From: aje9383@osfmail.isc.rit.edu (Andrew Erickson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: grace.isc.rit.edu
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: grace.isc.rit.edu
Message-ID: <37128886.0@isc-newsserver.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 1999 19:57:58 -0500
X-Trace: 12 Apr 1999 19:57:58 -0500, grace.isc.rit.edu
Lines: 36
XPident: aje9383
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.21.3.100
XPident: Unknown
Path: star.cs.vu.nl!newsfeed.amsterdam.nl.net!sun4nl!newsfeed.tli.de!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer1.sprintlink.net!news-in-central.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!isc-newsserver.isc.rit.edu!aje9383
Xref: star.cs.vu.nl comp.os.minix:35207

In article <slrn7h4jfc.gbg.pino+comp_os_minix@mud.stack.nl>,
Martijn van Buul <pino+comp_os_minix@dohd.cx> wrote:
>It occurred to me that Tom Bird wrote in comp.os.minix:
>> I have a Sun 3/110 which is currently just a dedicated X server (no tape
>> drive so can't read the Sun Unix 4.1.1 tapes) which I downloaded.  It
>> has 8Mb RAM and that's it.  The SCSI HDD in the SCSI disk box doesn't
>> want to play.  Currently, it uses RARP, bootparamd and NFS to start.
>
>You could use BOCHS on it, if memory serves me right, allthough you'll
>have a hard time configuring it if you don't have a smoothly running
>SunOS-setup :-/

Is that the FreeBSD (or maybe NetBSD--I get them confused) X terminal setup? 
If so, ordinary [Free|Net]BSD should work, too.  (At any rate, their is an
apparently stable port).

>> I have no idea what CPU these things use.
>
>a Motorola 68030, IIRC.

Close--a 68020 with a 68881 FPU and a SUN/3 MMU (which is quite unlike a
Motorola MMU).  The /110 runs at 16.67 MHz, is rated at 2 MIPS, and has a
memory cycle time of 270 ns.  (This from the Sun-3 Product Family
Configuration Guide, dated October, 1986.)

From a software standpoint, the MMU is the only real difference between a
SUN 3 and a 68030-based system.  For user-level programs, this is not an
issue.

Minix can run under SunOS (or could at one point) but has not been ported to
the bare SUN 3 hardware.

--Andrew Erickson, aje9383@grace.isc.rit.edu



