[UFO Chicago] Sun IPX serial console

[sjk@dredel.com]

Here's a Howto: http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/serial/

IPXs are great -- mmmmm 1M processor cache . . . .

--sjk

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Nick Moffitt wrote:

> 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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