casper....@sun.com wrote:
I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back 
then)
couldn't handle / slices greater than 1GB, so if you stuck a 9GB disk inside of 
an IPX or an
SS1+, you were forced to split / and /usr.

Pwow, I feel old now.

Nah, in the old days a disk was 35MB or perhaps 70MB (really big).  5.25"
too.

For non-Sun hardware, running System 7 circa 1983, there was the [ICL] Perq:

 35MB and 14" and with a fan belt:
 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~pmaydell/PERQ/
 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~pmaydell/hardware/faranth/

And deafening.



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