[rescue] SunOS 4.1.1_U1 source code?

[Dave McGuire]

On 4/21/26 22:23, Dan Moisa wrote:
> You know how you want to change the lightbulb in the bathroom, but the 
> door to the basement squeaks, and when you get the WD-40 from the garage 
> you end up sharpening the lawnmower blades? This whole sunos compilation 
> was itself supposed to be a distraction as I'm taking a break from the 
> CG4 replica...

   ROFL...I know *exactly* what you mean. ;)

> I got fed up with trying to compile it on a real box because it's too slow.
> I don't think cross-compiling will work* at the OS scale, at least not 
> as the starter task.
> Getting TME to work on mac was a pain, and then it's slow, incompatible 
> and not easily changed.
> There's supposedly mame support for sun3 but again with many caveats.

   Yeah.  I've gotten it to mostly work for sun2 and sun3, and while 
it's very impressive in some ways, the code is a mess and it has serious 
issues.

> So I ended up writing up sun3 support in QEMU. It's working (sans disk 
> and video at the moment), netboots sunOS/NetBSD, is stable and much 
> faster. I'm working on cleaning up some AI nonsense to get it checked in.

   That sounds fantastic, I can't wait for that to appear in the 
distributions!  We have lots of running machines at LSSM, and I have a 
few at home, but doing builds and such in emulation is very handy.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA