18 Feb
2026
18 Feb
'26
9:16 p.m.
On 18. Feb 2026, at 21:18, Miod Vallat via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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 :).
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. 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