[rescue] SunOS 4

[Todd Vernon]

4.1.4 for the win!  I run it on my SS1, SS2, IPC, IPX.  It’s so much more fun!  For everything above those I run 2.6.  I’ve actually been thinking about going to 4.1.4 on my SS5 as well.

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Todd Vernon
Entrepreneur | Investor
Email: todd at toddvernon.com
LinkedIn: toddvernon
On Jan 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM -0700, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>, wrote:
> On January 4, 2025 5:04:01 AM silcreval via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> > I've been using Solaris 2.x on various sparcstations for decades now, but just for fun installed SunOS 4.1.4 on a Sparcstation 2 recently.
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> > I was amazed how much faster the whole system feels with SunOS 4 compared with Solaris 2.6 which I was running earlier.
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> Really, nobody in the Sun world ran Solaris2 on sun4c, or even many sun4m machines "back in the day". Everyone talks about putting Solaris2 on earlier SPARCstations these days, and I keep wondering why. It's just not a good idea, and not what was commonly done, for good reasons.
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> -Dave
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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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