14 Feb
2001
14 Feb
'01
4:02 a.m.
... any
SPARCstation users ... looking
for O/S information to make it live again.
If it is O/T, please p-mail me. <mailto:jrasite@eoni.com>
Jim
... You can run up to either Solaris
2.6 or 7 on it....
Zane 
14 Feb
14 Feb
4:36 a.m.
Yep, which I have, but it was not NeXTStep, it was OpenStep. It still
needs Solaris to run. It was just a window manager with the appropriate
OpenStep development environment, not the actual MACH-based OS.
I run OpenStep, CDE, Openwindows, Motif Window Manager on my
Solaris 2.6-based Sparc IPX...
Ram
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Tapley" <mtapley(a)swri.edu>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Sun SPARCstation 2
NeXTStep 3.3 or 4.x also had versions which ran on Sparc hardware.
- Mark
... any SPARCstation users ... looking
for O/S information to make it live again.
If it is O/T, please p-mail me. <mailto:jrasite@eoni.com>
Jim
... You can run up to either Solaris
2.6 or 7 on it....
Zane
5 a.m.
Oops, let me take that back, NeXTStep does exist for Sparcs as well
as OpenStep for Solaris which was what I was talking about....
Ram
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ram Meenakshisundaram" <rmeenaks(a)olf.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: Sun SPARCstation 2
Yep, which I have, but it was not NeXTStep, it was
OpenStep. It still
needs Solaris to run. It was just a window manager with the appropriate
OpenStep development environment, not the actual MACH-based OS.
I run OpenStep, CDE, Openwindows, Motif Window Manager on my
Solaris 2.6-based Sparc IPX...
Ram
>
> NeXTStep 3.3 or 4.x also had versions which ran on Sparc hardware.
> - Mark
>
11 a.m.
New subject: NeXTStep on Sparc (was: Re: Sun SPARCstation 2)
Yep, which I have, but it was not NeXTStep, it was
OpenStep. It still
needs Solaris to run. It was just a window manager with the appropriate
OpenStep development environment, not the actual MACH-based OS.
I run OpenStep, CDE, Openwindows, Motif Window Manager on my
Solaris 2.6-based Sparc IPX...
Ram
Really? I'd thought it was the entire OS (BTW, I'm pretty sure NeXTStep 3.3
will also run on it). I'm curious, do you happen to know if a
configureation like you're talking about will run on a dual processor
Sparc 20? I'd wouldn't mind the ability to run the Lighthouse apps
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/LighthouseDesign on my Sparc 20, and OmniWeb
would be cool also.
I've got OPENSTEP 4.2, but have only run it on x86 (and unfortunatly that HD
died).
Zane
11:13 a.m.
New subject: NeXTStep on Sparc (was: Re: Sun SPARCstation 2)
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:00:38PM -0800, healyzh(a)aracnet.com (healyzh(a)aracnet.com)
wrote:
There's OpenStep for Solaris, and there's NEXTSTEP for Sparc. The
latter is plain old NS3.3 and runs FAT NEXTSTEP binaries; the former
is Solaris with X11 and all and runs SunOS binaries. OpenStep for
Solaris requires an older version of Solaris (2.5.1 was too new when I
tried it), but it's free --
http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/OpenStep/implementation/solaris/
Note that that's "OpenStep for Solaris" (compare "OpenStep for Windows
NT"), and not "OpenStep for Mach for Sparc" (compare "Openstep for
Mach for Intel").
Cheers,
-Rich
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Yep, which I
have, but it was not NeXTStep, it was OpenStep. It still
needs Solaris to run. It was just a window manager with the appropriate
OpenStep development environment, not the actual MACH-based OS.
I run OpenStep, CDE, Openwindows, Motif Window Manager on my
Solaris 2.6-based Sparc IPX...
Ram
Really? I'd thought it was the entire OS (BTW, I'm pretty sure NeXTStep 3.3
will also run on it).
11:36 a.m.
New subject: NeXTStep on Sparc (was: Re: Sun SPARCstation 2)
Really? I'd thought it was the entire OS (BTW,
I'm pretty sure NeXTStep
3.3
will also run on it). I'm curious, do you happen
to know if a
configureation like you're talking about will run on a dual processor
Sparc 20? I'd wouldn't mind the ability to run the Lighthouse apps
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/LighthouseDesign on my Sparc 20, and OmniWeb
would be cool also.
I've got OPENSTEP 4.2, but have only run it on x86 (and unfortunatly that
HD
died).
There were two (actually three) releases on the Sparc. One that was
officially from
NeXT running NeXTStep/OpenStep and one from Sun which used OpenStep.
OpenStep on
Sparc died like the dinosaurs. I downloaded the beta from Sun's website a
while back
and LightHouse I believe patched the official version and released an
unofficial version
of OpenStep for Sparc. I downloaded it from somewhere, but dont know where.
It is
pretty big though. Hold on, let me try to find the site....
Well here is the official link to Sun's openstep where I downloaded it:
http://brahma.imag.fr/Multimedia/openstep/
Found it!! Here is OpenStep 1.1 unofficially released with a lot of bug
fixes. You
can find OpenStep 1.0 there as well:
http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/OpenStep/implementation/solaris/
Cheers,
Ram
1:30 p.m.
New subject: NeXTStep on Sparc (was: Re: Sun SPARCstation 2)
Really? I'd thought it was the entire OS (BTW,
I'm pretty sure NeXTStep 3.3
will also run on it). I'm curious, do you happen to know if a
configureation like you're talking about will run on a dual processor
Sparc 20? I'd wouldn't mind the ability to run the Lighthouse apps
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/LighthouseDesign on my Sparc 20, and OmniWeb
would be cool also.
I know that NeXTStep ran on processors other than x86 and the
NeXT hardware but unfortunately the Academic Bundle of 3.3, which is
what I have, only included the system for those two, plus various
drivers for PC-type hardware.
Jeff
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4:25 p.m.
New subject: NeXTStep on Sparc (was: Re: Sun SPARCstation 2)
My free Y2K update from NS3.2 to NS3.3 for black hardware, included a
set of boot disks and CD's for PA-RISC and Sparc as well as the ones for
68K and intel. For a while in '99, all you had to do was call Apple
with the serial number of your black cpu and they would overnight you a
complete set of NeXTStep Developer 3.3.
James
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Really? I'd thought it was the entire OS
(BTW, I'm pretty sure NeXTStep 3.3
will also run on it). I'm curious, do you happen to know if a
configureation like you're talking about will run on a dual processor
Sparc 20? I'd wouldn't mind the ability to run the Lighthouse apps
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/LighthouseDesign on my Sparc 20, and OmniWeb
would be cool also.
I know that NeXTStep ran on processors other than x86 and the
NeXT hardware but unfortunately the Academic Bundle of 3.3, which is
what I have, only included the system for those two, plus various
drivers for PC-type hardware.
Jeff
--
Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems:
Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757
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