[SunRescue] Re: Solaris for PowerPC

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Oct 4 11:33:04 CDT 2000


On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:46:34AM -0700, Robert Novak wrote:
> You'll never guess what I came across at a recent swap meet (just last
> month, in fact)... I'd never seen PPC Solaris before, although I'd heard
> about it, and now in one of these boxes in my apartment is a
> shrink-wrapped copy of it.
> What I didn't tell my girlfriend is that this means the Alphastation isn't
> my last computer (don't mention that Multia that came in either)... now I
> need a PPC box to run Solaris on. :-)
> I'll keep my eyes out for extra copies; I know one of the vendors at the
> swaps out here usually has a pile of Solaris boxes, and I'll see if any
> more of them are PPC.
> --Rob

We've gone over this before; AFAIK Solaris/PPC will ONLY run on certain
models of IBM 43P.

Bill

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