[rescue] SunOS 4

[Alexander Jacocks]

I once installed Solaris 2.7/7 on an SS2 with 64mb and 2x 7200rpm 500mb HDDs. It took 2 days just to install, though part of that was the 2x Sun CD-ROM that I was installing it from.

I only did it to see if it was possible, and it was, but it was completely unusable.

Interestingly, as slow as the microSPARC II in the Classic/LX is, Solaris 7 and 8 runs at least acceptably on those. Obviously, NetBSD is a -lot- better.

- Alex

> On Jan 4, 2025, at 5:33 AM, Chris Hanson via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> There’s a good reason Solaris was jokingly referred to as “Slowlaris.”
> 
> At least as of 7.x, NetBSD was within 10% of SunOS performance on Sun SPARC hardware with sufficient RAM. If only it had the window system device support, SunOS binary compatibility would effectively make NetBSD a *real* “SunOS 5."
> 
>  -- Chris
> 
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