Was Ultrix for DECstations -- now SunOS for Sparc2

At 2:17 PM -0500 11/13/05, Bill Pechter wrote: Ah, SunOS 4.1.4, if I had a use for such a system, I'd be tempted, I did like SunOS! Though realistically, unless I needed SunOS for some specific reason, I'd simply load OpenBSD on the system. I still have a Sun Sparc 10 in production at work, and had a Sparc 2 in production until a few months ago as the standby system. Sadly sometime next year, I'm supposed to replace the 10 with a newer system, and retire it. I've also got some Ultra 2's running Solaris 2.6 and 8 that are still in production, though the ones running 2.6 will hopefully be retired December 31st. Use OpenBSD, it's seriously lightweight, you could even use a Sparc 2 for a firewall, and have plenty of RAM free as long as you've got at least 64MB (I'm lucky enough to have 96MB in my Sparc 2). I ran a Sparc 5 with a quad card as a firewall for a few years using OpenBSD, and it's still there for emergency use, just waiting to be turned back on. I'd personally like to have an early version of Ultrix (V1 or V2) as well as VAX/VMS 4.x for one of my MicroVAX II's. But then that would just be to play, as there is no way I'm using a MicroVAX II for serious work (though I do have a MicroVAX III that is built for specific job). The MicroVAX III actually had some version of VAX/VMS 4 on it when I got it, but the RD53 died before I could run a backup :^( Zane -- -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |