Re: SunOS 4.1.3 or OS/MP?

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Craig Dewick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a spare SunOS 4.1.3 or OS/MP install disk/tape/image ?
>> It would help improving the sparc (sun4m) emulation under qemu...
>
> At some point I did have a CD with OS/MP on it from the time when I did have
> my Kbus 5/502 system operating. The system still works as far as I know but
> it's only got a 2 GB hard drive so not good for much other than to demo it.
> Always wanted to get more memory and disk into the system.
>
> It would be soooo excellent to be able to run something like NetBSD on the
> Solbourne systems.

I'm surprised that NetBSD doesn't. Maybe it's just a boot loader/PROM issue?

Actually I thought Soulbourne systems were compatible to Sun ones
except for (S)MP. Is it not so?
Was it possible to run OS/MP on Sun machines?

>I don't know if anyone has access to the internal
> hardware specs for the Kbus systems any more. Solbourne itself certainly
> doesn't (since it's been a software-only company since about 1990 when the
> hardware side was flogged to Grumman).

Well obviously they knew the specs good enough to write an OS. Would
have been enough for the NetBSD guys too.

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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/