17 Jul
2019
17 Jul
'19
5:31 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 9:11 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 02:10:14AM -0600,
arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
And wasn't it a weird version of SunOS? Support for the Roadrunners was
only in a couple of releases too (4.0, 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 only). Most of the
sunos sources that have fallen off a truck on the internet are 4.0.3 and
newer, so there's no i386 support in them. I used a Sun386/250 at
Wollongong to do testing. Mostly it ran X and was one of the available X
workstations in the testing lab since it was weird enough people didn't
want to use it (though the Sony News box next to it might also have come in
a close second for weird).
The wikipedia page says there was a Sun486 (code named apache) that was
designed and a few built, but that was then cancelled before release.
Warner
emanuel stiebler <emu(a)e-bbes.com> wrote:
Yep, can confirm. I was a fan but the powers that were at Sun at the
time just didn't want competition for SPARC. Which was sort of silly,
a 386 was nowhere near as fast as the SPARC chips of the day, that was
when RISC actually made sense. But perhaps they had a crystal ball
and could see that x86 was going to be as fast or faster down the
road? I tend to doubt it, they really looked down on the 386.
On 2019-07-11 18:50, A. P. Garcia wrote:
Sun had a '386 based system in early 90s-ish called the Road Runner.
I never saw it. It ran SunOS 4.x and I think was discontinued by the
time Solaris 2.x came along. On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM Clem cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Did Sun have anything to do with that? I seem to
recall something
called "Interactive Unix" for the 386, possibly marketed by Sun...
"Interactive Unix" was pretty nice back than.
Anybody remembers ESIX? Still have the document wall for that ...
Cheers