Re: Sun loans Ultra30 Systems to Debian

["J. Joseph Max Katz" <jkatz@cpio.net>]

I've tried working with various sun folks to get Ultra hardware.
They all wanted me to buy it.

Jonathan Katz. (408) 569-7092. jkatz@cpio.net. CEO CPIO 
Networks. http://www.cpio.net "Goals for the next year 
include getting everything in the garage operational, 
including but not limited to one 1958 Corvette, one DEC 
VAX 11/750 and one 1918 Western Electric crank phone."

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, David Scott +44 1383 821921 wrote:

:Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 11:49:59 +0000 (GMT)
:From: David Scott +44 1383 821921 <david.michael.scott@gecm.com>
:To: misc@openbsd.org,
    advocacy@openbsd.org
:Subject: Re: Sun loans Ultra30 Systems to Debian
:
:> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
:> Debian GNU/Linux
:> http://www.debian.org/
:> Sun loans Ultra30 Systems to Debian
:> November 6, 1998
:> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
:> 
:> >> News
:> 
:> Sun Microsystems <http://sun.com> has loaned three UltraSPARC systems to 
:> Debian project.  They are 64-bit Ultra30 workstations, each with with an
:> UltraSPARC-II/250MHz CPU (1M-ECache), 128MB RAM, 4.3GB Seagate SCSI drive 
:> and a Creator graphics card.  One system is installed at Kachina 
:> Technologies, Inc. and will be publicly available to Debian developers.  
:> The other two systems are used by developers to develop boot related 
:> packages and other low level tools.
:
:Would there be any point approaching Sun Microsystems to see if they would give
:similar support to OpenBSD (or any *BSD project)? Sun were interested in a
:FreeBSD port at one time.
:
:David Scott
:
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