[rescue] SPARCclassic X - what software did this run?

Jerry Kemp sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us
Wed Sep 6 04:23:56 CDT 2017


Hopefully this page will answer the question in your subject header, what 
software will my SPARC Classic run.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCclassic>




On 09/ 5/17 11:13 PM, Andrew Liles wrote:
> It sounds like the SPARCclassic X machines were designed to netboot special X
> terminal software instead of a full SunOS/Solaris - does anyone know how that
> worked, how that was installed, and if some sort of distribution of that is
> still out there somewhere?
>
> I assume the machines netbooted via the usual RARP/bootparams/NFS scheme that
> other SPARC machines do, but how did that differ from a normal diskless
> workstation setup?
>
> May be acquiring one and would like to attempt running what it was intended
> for.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -a.
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