[UFO Chicago] Sun IPX serial console

[Nick Moffitt]

begin  Uncle Pedro  quotation:
> Quoting Jesse Becker:
> > So I just picked up a Sun IPX, and am trying to access it
> > via serial console.
> 
> Cool -- sounds like an interesting problem... unfortunately it also
> sounds beyond my KEN. (har) What's an IPX?

	The IPX is the original dickless workstation.  They ran a
SunOS kernel out of ROM or TFTP boot, and contained a hard drive
strictly for cache/swap.  They were originally supposed to be
diskless, but everybody gives up on that one eventually.

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