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

[Andrew Liles]

Thanks Peter!

I have heard the same - that the motherboards are identical to the regular
Classic, but generally shipped with far less RAM, and maybe the PROM is a
slightly different version/different NVRAM settings. I'm just interested in
the
whole "X terminal" aspect of it vs. using it as a normal standalone
workstation.

I'm guessing it's a minimal version of Solaris that netboots and just loads
up
Xsun and xdmcp or something - but can't really find any references to it
aside
from blurbs in press releases.

-a

> On Sep 5, 2017, at 10:33 PM, Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew
>
> I forget the exact software it was to run, I am sure someone will enlighten
> you, but pretty sure it was a marketing version of the classic (ie same
> motherboard and same chassis) with maybe no disk and limited memory, but
could
> be upgraded to a full classic, a bit like they did with the Netra versions
of
> the SS5 and SS20.
>
> I could of course remember it incorrectly...!
>
> Peter
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> On 6 Sep 2017, at 05:13, Andrew Liles <blah at spilk.org> 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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