[rescue] You see a wild SPARCstation 20. What do?

J. Alexander Jacocks jjacocks at mac.com
Fri Jan 13 10:17:01 CST 2012


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:04 AM, SOBEK Ralph <ralph.sobek at enseeiht.fr>
wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:34:42 -0600, rescue-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:32:54 -0700
>> From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa at latt.net>
>
>
>> 1) What OS do you guys think I should run on it? I think I'm stuck with
>> Sol9 and earlier (maybe even Sol8 and earlier?), or Open/NetBSD, and I've
>> read that Open may be quirky on a MP system.
>
>
>>        You can run 9, but if you had the free licenses for 8 that may be
>> the route to go.
>>
>>        Then again, don't listen to me, I've got one running 8, and one
>> running SunOS 4.1.4, so I may be a bit of a nut.

As a follow-up to all of this, I'm looking for a Turbo GX+ (note the
plus), for my SS2.  This is because I no longer have any functional
Sun CRTs, and none of the LCDs that I own will do 1152x900.  I could
also use a second HyperSparc/150 for my SS20.

Anyone have one, or any ideas?

Thanks!
- Alex


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