SunPCi: A Hidden x86 PC Inside Your Sun Workstation!

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Join me as I explore the SunPCi co-processor board, a fascinating piece of retro tech that brought full x86 compatibility to Sun workstations!
With a dedicated AMD K6-2 processor, dedicated RAM, and stand-alone I/O ports for connecting external peripherals, you have a 2-in-1 workstation!
I’ll attempt to install Windows 98 on it, and even try to wire up a real IDE hard drive—but will it work? Let’s find out together!

00:00 Intro
00:54 SunPCi: A PC inside a Sun Workstation
03:13 Installing the SunPCi
04:27 Using the SunPCi
07:19 Updating the SunPCi BIOS
08:12 Connecting an IDE Harddrive to the SunPCi
13:45 Conclusion / Outro

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Links:

SunPCi in general:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunPCi
https://www.zx.net.nz/computers/sun/c...
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/...
https://vtda.org/docs/computing/Sun/h...


SunPCi Software:
https://archive.org/details/sunwspci-13
https://archive.org/details/sunpci_3_2_1


User Manual
https://archive.org/details/manualzil...

SunPCi 1.x on Solaris 9:
https://blog.jdboyd.net/2008/07/sunpc...


SoftWindows for Unix / SGI:
https://techpubs.jurassic.nl/library/...

No CD Boot for SunPCi (german):
https://sonnenblen.de/index.php?topic...

CPU Virtalization Support:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_vir...

Linux on SunPCi:
http://www.vdberg.org/~richard/Linux-...


WABI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_(s...)
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/...