Cray-Cyber
I found this site courtesy of maxsleg at Nekochan. I swear, that place is just awesome. The more I stay there, the more I want to buy old rare computers 
Luckily, I don’t have to buy them anymore. Look, I can even get access to a Cray Y-MP! To say nothing of all the other stuff, which I don’t even know… I just know CDC 6600, but who needs that when you have a Y-MP. There’s a CDC 4680, which I don’t know everything about, and the login prompt reminds me of DOS. Sun Enterprise 10000? Wow… I’d like to cat /proc/cpuinfo that, except it doesn’t work. The only things I know from Linux that still work in Solaris are uname and dmesg, and even uname doesn’t tell me what Solaris it is. I have to use this thing called showrev.
[ritchan@e10k-pub ~]$ showrev -s e10k-pub
Hostname: e10k-pub
Hostid: 80a7018d
Release: 5.10
Kernel architecture: sun4u
Application architecture: sparc
Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
Domain:
Kernel version: SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-24
[ritchan@e10k-pub ~]$
[ritchan@e10k-pub ~]$ cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC
Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 09 June 2006
[ritchan@e10k-pub ~]$ uname -X
System = SunOS
Node = e10k-pub
Release = 5.10
KernelID = Generic_118833-24
Machine = sun4u
BusType = <unknown>
Serial = <unknown>
Users = <unknown>
OEM# = 0
Origin# = 1
NumCPU = 56
[ritchan@e10k-pub ~]$
Apparently the SunOS minor revision number is the Solaris version number, which means SunOS 5.8 is Solaris 8, and SunOS 5.10 is Solaris 10. Cool. I thought it had 64 processors… but I can never really tell, NumCPU is 56, while prtdiag obviously shows CPUs with the index going up to 63. Apparently only 56 are available for the public to use, but if prtdiag shows CPU count starting from 4, doesn’t that mean 4 CPUs are reserved? But you can’t have 60 CPUs in the E10K… oh yes, and apparently SGI sold the division that made this computer from Cray Research off to Sun for around 50 million. Scott McNealy (not the current Sun CEO) was later heard saying how this was the best deal that Sun ever had.
There’s also an Origin 2000, but in an email from the admin, they lost one disk and they need to recover the operating system and they don’t even have a definite date for that. I just hope they didn’t lose their MIPSPro license.
In any case, this looks like it’ll be fun, and I’ll dazzle everybody by memorizing all these UNICOS commands and whatever crap the Cyber machines have. Somebody please donate a Connections Machine 5 to them.
