Re: Ressurecting an IPX

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:19:16 +0000
> "Angus Fox (Mac.Com)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What OS should I run on it today. No GUI required. Need good disk
>> utils, like rsync, and smb/afp or nfs networking.
> NetBSD. Period. I am running NetBSD on sun4c SPARCs for 15 years now
> and it simply and plain Just Works (C) (R) (TM). pkgsrc will give you
> any additional software you need.

I've got NetBSD installed on the non-running system that has the OBP 
images on it's HDD. Has a really old version though (1.4.2) and I think 
it's difficult to upgrade without doing some major work - not a simple 
case of updating over the top of existing files/packages.

> If you wane get a blast from the past use SunOS 4.x.

As a side-note, I still have a Solbourne 5/502 system which has a 2 gb HD 
with OS/MP 1.something (derived from SunOS 4.1.3 or 4.1.4 I believe) on 
it. A true multi-processor/multi-tasking version of SunOS 4! Shame about 
the company disappearing into the ether when Northrop-Grumman got hold of 
it. And sourcing spare hardware, etc. is another one of those holy-grail 
type searches.

Craig.

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