[comp.sys.sun] 3-series differences

ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (02/20/90)

Could someone explain to me the differences between the Sun 3/75, /110,
/140 and /160?

Email, as I'm sure most everyone knows the answer to this...

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weber@cs.utexas.edu (02/21/90)

In article <5155@brazos.Rice.edu> you write:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 51, message 5
>
>Could someone explain to me the differences between the Sun 3/75, /110,
>/140 and /160?

I'm not sure about a 3/75, but I think its a single board workstation (as
indicated by its two digit (X/75) suffix) based on a Sun 3/100 CPU.
Basically a 3/50 but with the faster 68020 from the 3/100 series.

A 3/110 was a 3 slot enclosure but with a color monitor and supporting
framebuffers.  It used the 3/100 series carrera CPU board.

A 3/140 was the same enclosure (and same CPU, the carrera, because of its
3/1XX model) as the 3/110 but did not include color hardware.  We used
alot 3/140's.

A 3/160 obviously has the same CPU board as all other 3/1XX series
machines.  The enclosure is indicated by the X/X60 model convention as a
12 slot 9U VME deskside enclosure.

mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) (02/23/90)

cg-atla.agfa.com!weber@cs.utexas.edu writes:
>I'm not sure about a 3/75, but I think its a single board workstation (as
>indicated by its two digit (X/75) suffix) based on a Sun 3/100 CPU.
>Basically a 3/50 but with the faster 68020 from the 3/100 series.

The 3/75 was the low-end diskless machine before the 3/50 and 3/60 were
built.  It's basically a desktop 3/160 with only 2 VMES slot (as opposed
to the 3/50 and 3/60, which have no VME slots), one of which is used for
the CPU board.