> On 18. Feb 2026, at 21:18, Miod Vallat via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> did anyone ever create an image of the Sun 386i firmware (EP)ROM? > > I'll try to dump it this weekend. Do not hesitate to poke me early next > week if you don't hear back.
Great, thanks a lot! I had a closer look at the 386i SunOS 4.0.2 kernel. Strangely, the kernel and userland use COFF instead of a.out and, even more unexpected, llvm-objdump and llvm-nm on OS X are able to disassemble the binaries and extract the symbols... this could be a fun project :). >> So if someone has a 386i for sale (ideally in Europe, I'm in Germany) I'm >> also interested... > > There's a guy near Paris, who used to maintain a bunch of 386i for a > large company, until they were eventually replaced, not that many years > ago (they were used with in-house ISA boards, and the company wanted to > use an Unix-like operating system on the machines driving these boards, > at a time where neither Linux nor Solaris on Intel were a thing). To the > best of my knowledge he still has four of them: > https://www.ebay.com/itm/186791746118 ...and thanks for the link! Now I remember seeing the machines on ebay before. I just contacted the seller, let's see if I'll make a spontaneous trip to France soon... Best wishes, Michael
