A CPU that used to kick ass, MN10501

[aberco]

Here's a curiosity that I have collected in a dumpster a while ago when some unix equipment was being thrown away. It is the CPU of a Solbourne UNIX workstation. These were actually compatible clones of a Sparcstation and Solbourne (mostly supported by Panasonic) designed a Sparc compatible processor named the KAP chip (Kick Ass Processor) that ran at 33MHz.

Well, the station was in really bad shape and missed its cover and I did not recognize it was rare at the time. I have scraped the mainboard but I have saved all of the support chips. I also have the ROM (will try to do a dump).

More information about this unusual system by someone that was in the hardware devteam:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~carlo/mxhistory.html

[kosmokrator]

Neat!!!