SV: [SPARCbook] Re: Can a SPARCbook 1 be revived?

[Peter Soderholm]

Yeah. I read trough them at work today briefly. I'll have another look when I get time. The Sparcbook1 seem to have been an 
odd beast indeed. 4 bit graphics and a special version of SunOS (bundled c-compiler. Why did Sun stop including a c compiler with the OS, it seems so un Unix like somehow. Now its back with gcc in Solaris 8). I also noted that there was a PC emulator of some sort.
Pretty cool old stuff!

Peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Emanuelsson Paer <Paer.Emanuelsson at kst.siemens.de>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: [SPARCbook] Re: Can a SPARCbook 1 be revived?


> Hi Peter,
> They have been scanned and are available from
> http://www.sunhelp.org/sparcbook  (thanks, Bill!)
> 
> Installation instructions are on page 4.
> 
> Regards - Pell
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:32:44 +0100 (CET)
> From: =?ISO8859-1?Q?Helena_S=F6derholm?= <helsod at algonet.se>
> Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Re: Can a SPARCbook 1 be revived?
> > Hi Michael,
> > from CD.  Don't you have the SunOS release notes from Tadpole?
> > If not, I could try converting them to PDF or TIFF.  They contain
> > detailed installation instructions.
> 
> If you scan the instructions wouldn't it be possible to put them up on the
> sunhelp site. I know I enjoy reading about such old stuff, and even though
> the rest of you might not share such perverted interests, if anyone gets
> hold of one of these old Sparcbooks it might be very useful to have access
> to these instructions / files in the future...
> 
> Peter  
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