[rescue] SunOS 4

[Dave McGuire]

   It's like night and day on an SS5 too.

              -Dave

On 1/4/25 09:48, Todd Vernon wrote:
> 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.
> 
> T
> 
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> Todd Vernon
> Entrepreneur | Investor
> Email: todd at toddvernon.com <mailto:todd at toddvernon.com>
> LinkedIn: toddvernon <https://www.linkedin.com/in/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.
>>>
>>> I was amazed how much faster the whole system feels with SunOS 4 
>>> compared with Solaris 2.6 which I was running earlier.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -Dave
>>
>> --
>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> New Kensington, PA
>>
>>
>>
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA