[rescue] Stupid question time...

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Rolling two answers together now that I'm home from work:

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM Dave McGuire via rescue
<rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>
> On 1/22/25 01:25, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue wrote:
> > How well would a 70 mhz SS-5 with 96mb ram, TurboGX video and a
> > ZuluSCSI work for running SunOS 4.1.4?
> >
> > Should I hold out for a faster machine? Look for more ram? Etc?
>
>    96MB is quite a lot for SunOS4.  Going from 8MB to 16MB for heavy
> desktop use with X11R4 was the "knee in the curve" for performance, at
> least for me.
>
>              -Dave

That's what I thought I remembered but most of my time was during the
transition to Solaris and it, shall we simply say, appreciated more.

I'm looking at one and pondering the budget on my  next payday. I
should be able to pull it off along with the needed Zulu.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM Dave McGuire via rescue
<rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>
> On 1/22/25 02:19, silcreval via rescue wrote:
> > The main issue is finding software as the archives tend to start at Solaris 2.4/2.5. We could really do with a good site for SunOS 4 software. I might have to make one :-)
>
>    I would applaud such an effort, and would also be able to contribute.
>
>    But it's not like compiling stuff is that hard. ;)  That was what we
> all did (you too, I'm sure!) back in the day.

The hassle I'm running into is finding older archives that still have
the SunOS make/configure information in them. I've got Emacs 20.7,
bash 1.14 & kermit4f.85  for example. Other "old versions" that aren't
total time bombs would be nice. That resolve+ mentioned the other day
too.

I've also found Communicator 4.04 (that's almost sure to be good for a
giggle even if useless) & CMUCL binaries.

There is a disk image for Sparc 4C (IPX IIRC) with GCC & etc on it.
Will that play nice on 4M under 4.1.4?

I have lots of stupid questions today :D

OS ISO & the patches too, so that's good.

>               -Dave
>
> --

Thanks for your time, everyone.

William
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