[SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3GX drive or info needed

Justin H Haynes justin at justinhaynes.com
Mon Nov 4 00:55:40 CST 2013


I believe it.  I haven't tried netbsd on it but openbsd is continuously maintained on the 32 bit sparc, so I found it to be the best option for a modern OS for sparc.  YMMV.  

Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:

>> I imagine NetBSD runs fine as well...
>
>I think my Tadpole is a 3GX, but, whatever it is, NetBSD runs fine on
>it.B  (Well, ran - it's been a while since I fired it up, what with this
>move in progress....)B  I needed to fiddle drivers a little, probably
>because I run old X and old NetBSD, but it pretty much Just Worked.B  I
>think there was a hardware issue - some of the cursor mask bits were
>stuck, I think it was - but I can't really blame that on software. :/
>
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