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# 8  
Old 08-27-2008
An Ultra 10 workstation will be ideal for that (practise purposes)Smilie
# 9  
Old 08-28-2008
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Originally Posted by incredible
An Ultra 10 workstation will be ideal for that (practise purposes)Smilie
In these server could I install solaris 10!?
Where could I buy these sever (used)?

Thanks!!
# 10  
Old 08-28-2008
Yes, why not?
Solaris 10 Sun Hardware Platform Guide

You can get used machines from SUN partners or dealers, they might have old decommed machines which might be of help to you. its cheaper .. of course you must test it to be stable.. Smilie
# 11  
Old 08-29-2008
qemu-sparc emulator uses OpenBios QEMU

I have no experience on it though so I don't know how close it is from Sun OpenBoot implementation.
# 12  
Old 08-29-2008
jesus... i'm thinking about all those systems we just scrapped. we had a "sun graveyard" hahaha.

v880s, v490s, 240s...
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