[rescue] Stupid question time...

[Dave McGuire]

On 1/22/25 10:48, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue wrote:
>>     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.
> 
> 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.

   Ah, yeah.  Those two OSes have essentially zero in common.

> 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.

   I assume you mean a ZuluSCSI.  I have a couple of those running in 
SPARCstations, they work nicely.

> 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.

   Time bombs?  I can't say I've seen anything like that.

   Finding stuff is easy, you just have to look for the releases that 
were current in the mid-late 1990s.  It's all out there.

> 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?

   An OS disk image?  No, a sun4c kernel will not boot on a sun4m 
processor.  Actually the bootstrap code is even different between the 
different kernel architectures.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA