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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: Re: Special Promotion - SPARCclassics for HOME
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.065902.6709@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 06:59:02 GMT
- Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
- Distribution: fj
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 23:17:36 GMT
- Message-Id: <16089@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.wanted,comp.text.frame,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.wizards,comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x
- References: <1992Dec12.230303.29943@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, <1992Dec18.041006.20079@netcom.com>, <1992Dec24.223916.13758@netcom.com>
- Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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- (Followups redirected to "comp.sys.sun.wanted".)
-
- >I believe that is not quite correct. Sun will only sell and
- >support Solaris 2.1 for the 'Classic. I don't believe that it
- >will not run SunOS 4.x (Solaris 1.x).
-
- *I* do:
-
- From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.172019.6869@nobeltech.se>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:20:19 GMT
- References: <8457@btr.BTR.COM>
- Organization: NobelTech AB
-
- 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
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- 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
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- And it sure as *hell* won't run anything from Sun prior to 4.1.2 (this
- answer brought to you by the letters "S", "R", "M", "M", and "U").
-