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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: What is a 386i???
- Message-ID: <15590@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:34:46 GMT
- References: <Uf3E1Pu00Uh_M2JI4=@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- > I have a friend interested in buying a used Sun 386i but either of
- >use have any idea what exactly it is. I assume that it really a ibm pc
- >clone with sold buy Sun which happens to come with a Sun os installed.
- >Right???
-
- Wrong.
-
- It's more like a Sun workstation that happens to come with a 386 and
- (optional?) 387 as its processor, and that happens to have an AT bus as
- its expansion bus.
-
- It has Sun-style frame buffers, and Sun-style serial port chips, and a
- Sun-style network interface; I think other peripherals are also
- Sun-style peripherals.
-