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# bin/iostat
SolarisOS 4.0.1 Generic_50203-0??un4m i386 Unknown.Unknown Ja was jetzt? sun4m oder i386?
1. After zooming into into the HD screenshoot it looks more like i886 ... not that it makes much more sense
2. There was a Sun386i available for a rather short time.... a rarity. Hadn't much to do with a commodity system. However that wasn't a sun4m system
And it's just "SolarOS" presumably they didn't want to use the "SunOS" name
It's not necessary ;D
See the link to the full screenshot in my post to the prior blog entry on Tron Legacy. There are other windows on the screen, one with an open "top" command (although in Linux-Style, as far as I know, although I don't know the top-implementations on old SunOS, but the ones I use on Solaris have a different "style" The top-output states "Up 8 days". To understand this, one has to be informed about the story of the new film: This console is in the arkade Flynn junior's dad (the original Tron hero) founded and from which he hacked the large computer system Tron mainly plays in. So it's not the supercomputers console, but a local system in the game center, supposedly used by Flynn senior to connect to this computer world. As the trailer tells, Flynn's dad went missing (information in the internet states somewhere around 1988/89) and only a few days before, from the long-since disconnected game center, a mysterious message reached a former friend of flynn's dad. So, one can assume, that (somehow...) this system, after all these years, powered on and made the call on behalf of flynn's dad, who is supposedly trapped in the cyberworld known from the first movie. So this system is not from the time the original tron plays in (1982), but from around 88/89 (between the movies, when Flynn senior disappeared), which is quite coherent with seeing SunOS 4.0.1 and sun4m architecture on the screen and it only powered up shortly before the mysterious call (hence the 8 days uptime). The only inconsistencies would be the Linux-Style top, the weird mixed sun4m-i386 architecture and the xorg-Server-Process (xorg-server was first released somewhere in 2004, I think, and xorg on sparc is quite new itself?) in the top-output ;D ( except, of course, this system is so far advanced, that it somehow fetched the xorg-sources by itself and began backporting and building it, yes Btw, a bit offtopic: Is there a way to get my hands (cheap!) on SunOS 4.x disks after all those years (or has someone still unused disks in his collection? I have an old, headless sun4m machine sitting here (SparcStation 10), which currently runs a Debian 4.0 ("sparc32") installation, but being interested in old systems, I want to run something more "authentic"
Bis vor einigen Jahren half ein googlen nach sunos414.iso.gz aber die Server scheinen down zu sein.
Ich habs aber noch bei mir auf Platte liegen. Zumindest per Netzboot (Getestet auf SparcStation IPX) und vielleicht auch per dd der miniroot auf ne Platte lässt sich daraus ein lauffähiges System basteln. Ob man von dem iso auch direkt booten kann hab ich nie probiert.
Wäre es möglich, mir davon ein gepacktes Abbild zukommen zu lassen, vielleicht per irgendeinem Filehoster? Das Iso war ja laut alten Posts so um 100MB gepackt...
Da das System ja seit langem über EOL hinaus ist (und auch laut einigen Beiträgen im Internet Sun selbst schon 1999 nicht mal mehr CDs vertrieb...) sollte das zumindest keine rechtlichen Probleme verursachen, denke ich?
Bei Nachfragen zum Thema Installation von SunOS auf sun4m oder sun4c Maschinen bin ich per EMail erreichbar unter a punkt fett bei gmx
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