Sun SPARCstation 2 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Feb 2001

On Feb 14, 12:58, LFessen106(a)aol.com wrote:

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  I have a question that belongs on this list for sure..
 Is it possible and
...
  legal to obtain a copy of an old version of SunOS or
Solaris to run on these
...
  old machines?  My personal opinion is that NetBSD or
Linux would run better
...
  on them, but for historical interest it might be nice
to have one running an
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  old Solaris as well. 
For a while, Sun had a webpage from which you could obtain Solaris 7 (or
was it 6?) free, and last time I looked it was possible to obtain Solaris 8
similarly (but that won't run on the older architectures).  I'm sure it's
been mentioned here before; look in the list archives.  I'd try asking on
comp.sys.sun et al for a copy.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York