[ale] [OFFTOPIC] Sun IPX & IPC

[robbie at opus.shorty.com (Robbie Honerkamp)]

Thus spake Mike Fletcher (fletch at phydeaux.org):

> 
>     David> Does anyone, off the top of their head, know what the difference
>     David> between the IPX and IPC was?  I'm looking for a [real] cheap box to
>     David> serve up a few web pages & sit on my network at home...
> 
> 	Not absolutely sure, but an IPX is roughly equivalent to a
> Sparcstation 2 (40MHz sun4c) and an IPC is equal to the older
> Sparcstation 1 (1+?; don't know CPU speed).  IPC's onboard framebuffer
> is b&w, IPX has a colour (8bit TGX framebuffer).  Both have 2 sbus
> slots inside, and both can take up to 32M of ram internally.  I think
> if you look for the Sun Managers' mailing list FAQ there's a pointer
> to a Sun comparison page somewhere on the web.

The Sun Hardware FAQ. It's not maintained anymore (I don't think), but
it does cover the IPX/IPC platforms.
http://www.shorty.com/info/sun/Sun_Hardware_FAQ_1

Robbie