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

[Ken Hansen]

I *think* sun had two compilers, and the base one that was
included was usually left unused in deference to a better GNU
compiler. Also, there was no revenue stream to support
continuede development of this tool, as the SPARC architecture
moved on...

Just my thoughts, I'll bet someone here has a more authoritative
answer,

Ken


-----Original Message-----
From: sparcbook-admin at sunhelp.org
[mailto:sparcbook-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Peter Soderholm
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:12 PM
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Subject: SV: [SPARCbook] Re: Can a SPARCbook 1 be revived?


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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