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- From: steve@eastend.uucp (Steven Roth)
- Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.133805.11459@eastend.uucp>
- Organization: The East End Computer Ensemble
- References: <1992Dec21.035502.13754@netcom.com> <kbibb.724912698@maui>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:38:05 GMT
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- >>From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- >>Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
- >>Message-ID: <1992Dec17.172019.6869@nobeltech.se>
- >>Organization: NobelTech AB
- >>References: <8457@btr.BTR.COM>
- >>Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:20:19 GMT
- >>Lines: 19
- >>
- >>In article <8457@btr.BTR.COM> bfong@btr.btr.com (B Fong) writes:
- >>>
- >>>Can someone verify (positively) if the SPARCclassic will run SunOS 4.1.x?
- >>>
- >>>Does anyone know this for sure? That is, actually installed one?
- >>
- >>No it won't run 4.1.3. Not only because SUN says so, but it gives a
- >>'data exception' when starting the generic 4m kernel after booting off
- >>the 4.1.3 CD. It runs the boot program OK though, both from CD and from
- >>network.
- >>
- >>Now 2.1 is on its way onto the disk .....
- >>
- >>/Per
- >>--
- >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >>Per Andersson - ppan@nobeltech.se (perand@stacken.kth.se on free time)
- >>Managing networks at, but not speaking for Nobeltech AB, J{rf{lla, Sweden
- >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >
- >
- >So someone *has* actually tried it...
- >
- >--
- >Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
- >kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
- >jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- > --"The Dead", James Joyce
- >
-
-
- I'm not sure if he tried the right kernel, though. The Classic is
- a uniprocessor superSPARC. He should have tried the sun4c kernel
- before punting.
-
- Steve Roth
- steve@eastend.jpr.com
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