[rescue] SS10 Accessories

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

I think the big change and hence support was move to 64bit with the Ultras and
why it was dropped, so anything without 32 bit support will not stand a chance
of working.

Peter

> On 22 Nov 2015, at 03:06, Eddie Cottongim <jcotton at intergate.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the input. I was, after many attempts, finally able to
net-boot my SS10 tonight.
>
> Mostly this setup will just be for experimentation. I do want to try some
optimization tricks on it and see what kind of performance I can get. Also,
reading about GX/TGX framebuffers, they seem to have some mysterious 3D
capability that was never documented and rarely used (even by Sun). I'd like
to play around with that.
>
> Out of curiosity, when Linux/Solaris etc dropped support for sun4m/sun4c, is
it because there was something inconvenient about the architecture that they
wanted to get rid of, or is it a case of not having time/equipment to test it,
so they dropped support, but it might still work?
>
> A few notes on hardware:
> I happen to have an Iiyama 19" CRT which can do odd video resolutions, but
more importantly it has BNC inputs which I hope will provide nice quality
video.
> I think having a real CD drive around is very useful (the net-boot worked,
but it took days to figure it out). It looks like SCSI CD/DVD ROMs are
available on ebay, so I may go for one of those once I find an enclosure.
>
> Eddie
>
> Hauke Fath wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 15:47:14 +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
>>
>>>> ISTR that SunOS 2.8 was the last release to support sun4m?
>>> Solaris 2.8 (SunOS 5.8) was the last for sun4d, and 2.9 was the last for
>>> sun4m.
>>
>> I stand corrected.
>>
>> Back then, I ran an ss10 under SunOS 2.7 and 2.8 for a few years
>> because of its ISDN interface. When I didn't need that anymore, I
>> switched to NetBSD, so the box never saw 2.9. It was replaced as my
>> main home server a few years ago (the grid bill...), but is still
>> sitting in a box somewhere here.
>>
>> Cheerio,
>> hauke
>>
>> --
>> Hauke Fath                        <hauke at Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
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