[Gllug] Sun AS4030

[Clive Hills]

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 15:34, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >Hate to sound even more heretical, but what about Solaris? Or is the
> >LX one of the unsupported machines? You can download SPARC Solaris 8
> >of the Net with a fat enough pipe....
> 
> No, Solaris 8 only supports UltraSPARC CPUs. Solaris 7 is the last
> version that will work on the LX, and they don't make that freely
> available.
> 
> Tet
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Errr no that's wrong. Solaris 8 still supports the sun4m architecture
(such as my SS5 and SS10). sun4c isn't supported though.

Surprisingly solaris 9 beta refresh will run on sun4m although the
initial beta didn't run other than on Ultrasparc.

Regards
Clive 

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