[rescue] SunOS 4

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Appreciate your time on this, Mike.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2025, 06:08 Mike Spooner via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

> William,
>
> I have a Sun Workshop (the previous name for Sun Studio) CD from circa
> 1993. However, the Sun compilers from that era were licensed using FlexLM,
> so without a valid key would not work.
>
> As it happens, I might have a key as well, I need to check. If so, that
> should do for all of us, as IIRC early-90's FlexLM licensing doesn't do
> "phoning-home", the checks are all only against the feature-encoded key.
>
> I'll get the version details of the CD, and post the info as a reply here.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>
> On 6 January 2025 09:53:18 GMT, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue <
> rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>
>> Of course this does make me wonder if anyone has a copy of the old
>> Sunsoft Workshop 1.0 for SunOS 4.1.x
>>
>> More as a curiosity at this point since I never got to play with it in the day.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM William Barnett-Lewis
>> <wlewisiii at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> You might find this link useful:
>>>
>>> https://www.oldsilicon.com/sunos-4-1-4-image-download
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM silcreval via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The mad thing is I actually started on SunOS 4, but somehow switched to Solaris in the 90s and forgot how good the earlier versions were.
>>>>
>>>> I'm now trying to track down some software for SunOS 4, starting with gcc so at least I can compile up some tools. IIRC it wasn't possible to compile gcc 2.95 for SunOS 4 for some reason, so I might try for 2.7 as I definitely remember using that at one time.
>>>>
>>>> - Ian
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>>>
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