Sun Blade 100

[Sean]

On 5 Mar 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Sean <picasso@madflower.com> writes:
> 
> > Any thoughts on the new Sun Blade 100's? I mean < $1k for a 64-bit
> > machine doesnt seem that outrageous. Even though the Ultra Sparc IIe 
> > processor, it has 3PCI slots, serial, parallel, USB and Firewire ports,
> > and a pretty good graphics cards.
> 
> My first questions would be:
> 
> 	* Can I run Linux/*BSD on the thing?  I wouldn't want
>           Solaris.

Give it a week *lol* It ships with Solaris 8 preinstalled. 

But in short it uses PC133 EC Ram
And IDE drives ship as standard. 

The rest of the specs are here:
http://www.sun.com/desktop/sunblade100/specs.html

More details are at:
http://www.sun.com/desktop/sunblade100/details.html