On 12/7/05, Bill Rushmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Charles Monett wrote: > > > Fine, it might have been dead, and probably (almost) useless, but that > > would be
> I think it would be a pointless effort to "port" OpenSolaris to sun4m. > Have you ever tried to run Solaris 9 on one of these machines? It is > painfully slow. I have two sun4m that I am very fond of but we have to be > realistic about their usefulness. I knew this a while back on my > dual Ross SS20. I wrote a simple Java utility that was maybe 100 lines > long. It took the poor thing alomst a minute just to compile it! Why > should the community waste its time with something so hopelessly outdated? > Today Solaris works on more cheap x86 hardware than anyone would have > dreamed of only a few years ago. Moreover, Sun has a great reputation > of binary compatabilty from the old versions. I would be willing to > bet just about every app written for the Sun4m architecture will still > work on the 4u's. So the 4m's only purpose is nostalga. Save the sun4m's > for the museum and lets continue with making OpenSolaris the most advance > OS in the World. > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/cars/1937Plymouth.jpg I drove that every day for a few years. It had no heater and was hell in many respects. But it was fun. Not very stable and one needed to get in there under the hood fairly often. I loved it. It was a toy. It was cool and people wanted to look under the hood. In 1997 I had an exhaust problem while crossing the peace bridge from the USA back into Canada. The exhaust dropped off on the drivers side. I rolled into a small town on the border and into the rear parking lot of a Shell station. The owner of the station came out, saw my situation and then asked if they could put it up on the hoist and fix the exhaust. Well of course. This is exactly what I needed. The owner called his father who arrived some twenty minutes later in an old 1930's Dodge. He was somewhere between 70 and 190 years old and he asked if he could do the exhaust work. He then worked all day, slowly and carefully bending the pipes and did all the custom welding and grinding needed to fit a new exhaust on both the left and right side of the engine. We talked all day and he told me about how he drove one of these after the war and how he met his wife and a full day of stories about children and all the while standing under my Plymouth and trying to get new pipes bent in place. He was not fast and he was not efficient. But at the end of the day he charged me $34 for all the work and parts. He simply smiled and said "1937 prices today". Never crush passion. Dennis ps: I run Solaris 8 on my Sparc 20. I ran gasoline in that car. Its nice to keep it running but lets face it, a hybrid fuel cell engine was unlikely ... but not impossible.
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