From: jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John A. Stewart) Subject: Re: Sun486i - does it exist ? Date: 2000/05/04 Message-ID: <8ermhu$fg2$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>#1/1 References: <8epk43$agd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39111ec9@clarion.carno.net.au> Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada NNTP-Posting-User: jstewart Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.sun.hardware In <39111ec9@clarion.carno.net.au> Darren Reed writes: >In comp.sys.sun.hardware mike.spooner@hil.hftrust.com wrote: >> In article , >> wbe @[ubeblock ]psr.com (Winston Edmond) wrote: >>> "Stephen S. Edwards II" wrote: >>> > Intel chips were in Suns? I thought earlier Suns were >>> > exclusively Motorola architectures (68030/040)... >>> >>> The exception was the Sun 386i. >> Not to mention the Sun 486i that was produced for a specific >> customer... >Do you have *any* more details ? The 486i must have gotten very close to going into production because one of our faculty members had one on order. When Sun decided to drop their Intel architecture machines he wound up getting a Sparcstation. -- John Stewart -- Computing and Communications Services, Carleton University Internet: jstewart@ccs.carleton.ca 613-520-2600x3707 "you are incompetent bloodlusting idiot pirates. -- CCS student feedback"