The Blade 2000 finally lives again :).

OK, it's finally finally up. currently #gcc , #coreutils , plus some support libraries, as a proof of concept. For those who don't know, FractalKit is an in-progress collection of modern packages built for #Solaris 10 #SPARC, and they may work on #Solaris 11 also. They can be downloaded at https://highenergymagic.net/fractalkit/ - please let us know if there are any bugs, issues, what have you.

CC: @SolarisDiaspora
#unix #retrocomputing #sunmicrosystems

Some period correct photography ... 1999 digicam imagiung a shelf with a Sun assortment.

Is there anyone in #Australia or #NZ, or who would be willing to ship to NZ, who could donate a #SPARC #Solaris (sun4u/sun4v) machine to the building effort for FractalKit? We're running up against some limits and some really bad time sinks, doing all of this on a 650MHz #UltraSPARC IIe is.... really really painful. We know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there has a machine they could donate to this we would be immensely thankful. This porting effort is really important to us but it's not going to be actually useful if a single library takes a day to compile. If you can't help, then please boost? @SolarisDiaspora

Is there anyone in #Australia or #NZ, or who would be willing to ship to NZ, who could donate a #SPARC #Solaris (sun4u/sun4v) machine to the building effort for FractalKit? We're running up against some limits and some really bad time sinks, doing all of this on a 650MHz #UltraSPARC IIe is.... really really painful. We know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there has a machine they could donate to this we would be immensely thankful. This porting effort is really important to us but it's not going to be actually useful if a single library takes a day to compile.

Now it is the turn for the #sun #sparc T4-2 to get the latest #solaris CBE update and for sure I do it from my beloved #amiga 3000.

After a little bit of experimentation, I've put together a smaller ISO for Tribblix SPARC m32 that might fit onto an actual CDROM. (It's just under 700MB.) This involved minimal shuffling, but means that the X11 packages are no longer on the ISO and would need to be pulled from the repo. Currently experimental.

http://tribblix.org/download.html#sparc

"Subject: Firefox on sparc64 available again"

thank you very much John Paul Adrian Glaubitz . See
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/52eeda379a027ab007474ec220845936b30d67b8.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de

Awesome work!

The latest version of Pale Moon on a 550MHz NetBSD/sparc64 machine. The last portable web browser capable of opening YouTube - slowly, but stable.

Little sunday quiz for my #sun #sparc friends Which service had to be done for which machine?

Loving the days when I get the IPX Up and running (scheduled function test any 6 months)

This is a collection of solutions to OpenFirmware and hardware issues for which I had difficulty finding answers as a first-time user of #Sun #sparc hardware.

https://netbsd.org/~nia/sun-blade-150.html

Does anyone know if there's any reasons why a #Sun Blade 150 might hang on "boot cdrom", other than a broken DVD drive? :-/ #sparc #solaris #netbsd

A great addition to the collection.

Sun Blade 1000 - round II, one of the processor modules that had this far was apparently bad, depending on whether would put it in slot 0 or 1, the machine would crash under load every hour or a few hours. Finally bought IIICu modules, checked have new enough firmware and used official torque key to put them in. It works, need to test long term soon! #retrocomputing #sun #SPARC #EusmilusBuilds

Ich habe gerade ein paar #retro bzw. #vintage Computer abzugeben.

Folgenden Maschinen suchen ein neues Zuhause:

* #Sun #sparc station IPC
* Sun Ultra 5 (64 bit sparc)
* HP 712/60 (gecko #PARISC)
* #MicroVAX II (BA123)

Die Geräte müssten in Bochum abgeholt werden.

Von der #VAX habe ich gerade noch keine Bilder, da die noch im Keller sitzt.

Mir genügt es, wenn die Maschinen ein liebevolles Zuhause finden, und nicht dem Elektroschrott anheim fallen müssen.

Boosts welcome

Общеобразовательное о том, какие процессоры могут быть по архитектуре. С экскурсом в историю развития.
«Как Intel создал ARM, ARM похоронил MIPS, на очереди X86?» На нескольких видео-хостингах:

• https://rutube.ru/video/bd42ae858d9fec2ea3bdc5ff70ddf28f/
• https://dzen.ru/video/watch/67e30b33a68eb647c136e44f
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbKQJ9W5dmo

Как «яблоко» #Apple и «жёлудь» #Acorn объединившись создали ARM — Advanced RISC Machines в 1990-м, хотя в оригинале это было Acorn RISC Machine с 1985-м года.

Первый релиз на ARM6 состоялся в 1992-м году и был это КПК — Apple Newton PDA на базе процессора ARM610.

Для получения именно десктопного процессора #PowerPC эта же самая Apple с 1991 года была в альянсе с #IBM и #Motorola работавшими над #RISC процессором архитектуры Power. В результате работы альянса над этой архитектурой стало семейство PowerPC процессоров.

В это время у Sun Microsystems было семейство SPARC — тоже на базе RISC, ставшее процессорами и для рабочих станций и для серверов. Первые системы #SunMicrosystems на процессорах #SPARC начали поставляться в 1987 году и на 1989 год были дешевле Intel 80386 процессора.

Кстати, именно серверные RISC-процессоры уже стали 64-х разрядными в реальных машинах, когда #x86 только планировали выбираться из 32-х разрядности.

#hardware #CPU #процессоры #intel #ARM #MIPS #x86 #CISC @russian_mastodon@mastodon.social @ru@lor.sh @Russia@3zi.ru

If you're running Tribblix on SPARC, upgrades to m32 are now available.

http://tribblix.org/relnotes.html#m32-sparc

Remember if you have one of the elderly #sun #sparc systems and the OBP asks for a pwd. Boot into OBP then remove the idprom (THEN press n) and you can setenv security-mode none .. My SS5 with S24 and #openstep 4.2 SPARC. As beautiful as my #amiga 3000 pizzabox