Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!)

Kenneth Stailey kstailey at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 14 14:43:56 AEST 2003


--- Kenneth Stailey <kstailey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > I've personally thought that Sun should release the source trees of its old
> 
> > BSD-based SunOS with the idea of getting back onside with all the Linux and
> 
> > Unix people it pissed off by its "buying" a "Unix" license from SCO, the 
> > Societe Commercial du On-Dit, the Commercial Society of Rumourmongers.
> > 
> > I was also thinking - there's enough free MC68K emulation stuff out there -
> 
> > for Mac, Amiga, Atari, etc - that writing a Sun3 emulator should be 
> > relatively easy.
> 
> Like very easy:
> 
> http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~fredette/tme/index.html

I was able to the the tme sun2 to work with the serial console on a FreeBSD
4.9-STABLE box.  The GTK GUI had problems that I will look at later.

$ tip sun2
can't open log file /var/log/aculog.
connected
Self Test completed successfully.

Sun Workstation, Model Sun-2/120 or Sun-2/170, Sun-2 keyboard
ROM Rev R, 4MB memory installed
Serial #4393, Ethernet address 8:0:20:DE:AD:BF

Probing Multibus: sd
Using RS232 A input.
Auto-boot in progress...
Boot: sd(0,0,0)vmunix 

Waiting for disk to spin up...

Please start it, if necessary, -OR- press any key to quit.

>?
What?
>r
SS: 00000FFC? 
US: 00400000? 
SF: 00000003? 

Does anyone have suggestions where to get SunOS for a sun2?

> > What do Sun-worshippers ;^) think?
> > 
> > Wesley Parish
> > 
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:22, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> > > On 2003.11.08 13:30 Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> > > > Does Sun still keep SunOS 4 under wraps or can it be
> > > > used for non-commerical purposes at no cost?
> > >
> > > You can download SunOS for sun3 legal and for free from
> > > http://www.sun3zoo.de/
> > 
> > -- 
> > Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love.
> > Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
> > You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
> > Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
> > I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
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