[rescue] Sun 3/60

[Alan Perry]

There is no version of Solaris 2/SunOS 5 that runs on sun3 hardware.

But I don’t know what you mean by “written close to the hardware”. SunOS 1-4 is based on BSD like NetBSD.

I worked for Sun on Solaris 2.3 - 7 and Solaris 10 - 11.4 (commands and libraries group then I/O (driver infrastructure) group, then x86 platform group which became a general platform group (I/O as above, boot and low-level initialization)). I run everything on my collection of Sun machines, SunOS 3, SunOS 4, Solaris 2 (versions that I worked on), NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, NeXTSTEP.

alan

> On Nov 12, 2023, at 11:33, Mike Katz via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> i am a closet SUN fan from my days working on Sun machines for a 68000 C cross compiler company.
> 
> If you are running an old Sun, I would strongly recommend SunOs (not Solaris) even without source because it was very stable and written close to the hardware.
> 
> I think running anything else isn't really paying homage to the Sun.
> 
> If you want modern Unix/Linux stuff, run it on a Raspberry Pi.
> 
> On 11/12/2023 1:13 PM, Mouse via rescue wrote:
>>>>>> What OS do you intend to run on it ? Vintage SunOS 4.x or some
>>>>>> more recent NetBSD ?
>>>>> I'm not sure.  Preferably both but I'm biased towards NetBSD since
>>>>> it's easy to get a modern Unix environment going with package
>>>>> management and whatever else going.
>>>> Really recommend running vintage on this machine
>>> Same here.  We just brought up a 3/50 at LSSM, nicely responsive
>>> running SunOS 4.1.1_U1, after the kernel was trimmed down.  Such
>>> great machines!
>> Well, a "modern Unix environment" (hundreds of megs of Web browser,
>> running into TLS every time you turn around, bell-and-whistle-infested
>> UI) is something a -3/60 just doesn't have the computrons to support.
>> 
>> Personally, I wouldn't run SunOS simply for lack of source.  But that's
>> the only reason; in every other respect, IMO it's a fine choice.  If
>> you do want source code, I'd suggest older NetBSD - my -3/60 runs (my
>> own derivative of) 1.4T.  It doesn't support a "modern" environment,
>> no, but (a) my desire for such a thing is actually negative and (b) a
>> -3/60 can't really support one anyway, so that's fine with me.
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