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Jon Masters wrote to us in regards to the SPARCBook 6500 from Tadpole. Solaris 9, 4 gigs of RAM and all that - but with the TiBooks and Linux working on laptops, how much do people need Solaris laptops?
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The page says that the version with Solaris 9 and 4GB RAM is due in winter 2002.
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and RAID setup everywhere I go. I could just get the
laptop and I can run Solaris anytime I want. (x86 sucks)
Oh yeah, Solaris Rules!
64bit defined from the mouths of Digital engineers
I'm sorry to inform you that your precious Pentium is not 64 bit, no matter how many 32 bit ops it can do in parallel. While your p2 might be able to do 2 or 4 32bit ops, my sparc can do 4 or more 64bit ops, if everything works well. Troll.
huh, huh, huh, you have an account as well, huh, huh, huh, cool.
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Yes, Virginia. There is a Gnome for Solaris.
/*drunk.. fix later*/
Sun sells OEM mobos that can run Solaris, and there are a few manufacturers out there, though I think Axil is gone.. Fujitsu builds some enterprise-class sparc systems, and I worked on a system built by a japanese or korean company (forget which) that was just an AXi base IIRC.. Also, Integrix builds OEM systems, though I've only used their pizza-box RAIDs before..
You might be able to build your own, but these days finding a 250 or 450 on ebay may be cheaper...
Heck yeah , Fujitsu , Tatung , Toshiba just to name a few.
Check out www.sparc.com for lists of members of the Sparc consortium.
The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
They are 5000 to 8000 depending on the config. The new ones didn't have prices yet so the $8000 is for the 2GB system.
Actually prices aren't that bad when comparing to average Sun prices.
eh. You guys clearly have never had a 64-bit box. An int is 32-bits on most 64-bit archs.
main(){
printf("My computer is %d bits\n", sizeof(void*) * 8);
}
This is a month old however:
Tadpole has discounted our 500MHz IIe laptop with the 14.1" LCD
1024x768, with 20-60GB HDD and up to 2GB RAM. Let me know if you have any
interest.
500MHz IIe, 14.1"LCD, 20GB HDD, 256MB RAM $5,489.50
500MHz IIe, 14.1"LCD, 20GB HDD, 512MB RAM $5,939.25
500MHz IIe, 14.1"LCD, 20GB HDD, 1GB RAM $6,750.00
500MHz IIe, 14.1"LCD, 20GB HDD, 2GB RAM $8,730.50
can expand to 60GB HDD
Tadpole also announced a 650MHz IIe, up to 160GB HDD, 4GB RAM coming in
Dec., 2002
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But is 32-bit always worse in practice than 64-bit?
Actually, 64-bit is usually worse in practice than 32-bit, all other things being equal. Many processors let you compile code for 32-bit pointers or 64-bit pointers; the MIPS R10000 family is the one I'm familiar with. The same code compiled for the 32-bit ABI will either run at the same speed as the 64-bit version, or it will be faster. The difference is caused by cache performance. If your pointer is twice as big, you can only squeeze half of 'em into the same caches. Thus, more cache misses, and decreased performance of the application overall.
Unless you need more than 2 GB of virtual memory for your program, you should compile it with 32-bit pointers.
I write in my journal
Apple like to infer the Tibooks are 64bit machines.
First things first. If they lead you to think something without saying it, they imply. If you think something without their saying it, you infer.
Now, where exactly did Apple imply that their PowerBooks are 64-bit systems? The only marketing or tech material I've seen that even mentions 64-bit computing is a little blurb on the vector units, saying that they handle "information in 128-bit chunks, compared to the 32- or 64-bit chunks in traditional chips."
I write in my journal
"An object declared as type _Bool is large enough to store the values 0 and 1." -- 6.1.2.5, C99 standard.
I don't know about the rest, but the best course of action with the battery is to get it re-celled. Inside the battery casing is usually just standard sized NiCad or NiMH or LiIon cells (depending on the age). Search around, there are companies that specialize in exactly this.
Look at the xrays of a TiBook, for example. You can see the cells inside the battery in the lower left corner.
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A lost battle, perhaps-- but we haven't lost the war yet. Don't give up, fellow opposers of the most useless key!
machine:~> xmodmap -
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Control_L
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
^D
machine:~>
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Do you have a floppy for thing? If you can track one down, just to a net install of OpenBSD or Netbsd, I think both have X support. Also I know Solaris 2.6 stock will run pretty well on a Sparcbook 3 ("well" is a relative term). Usenet is the place for finding parts these days.