[mxuribe]

Thanks!

And, wow, do i miss the old X-window workstations...well, i should clarify that i LOVED those (I think they were Sparc?) workstations that ran Solaris or SunOS back in the day! Man, that takes me back some years...but i really loved those machines! :-)

[mghackerlady]

OpenBSD supports sparc very well and is compatible with old sunos stuff (iirc). Unfortunately no 68k anymore (okay, technically there's a niche flavour of 68k that still is supported because of a very dedicated man in Japan)

[brynet]

> OpenBSD supports sparc very well and is compatible with old sunos stuff (iirc)

No 32-bit sparc anymore (only UltraSPARC, aka sparc64).

No SunOS compatibility (despite Theo de Raadt inventing it for NetBSD, before being copied by other BSDs).

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=161435521906992&w=2

> Technically there's a niche flavour of 68k that still is supported because of a very dedicated man in Japan

luna88k, while related, is not 68k.

https://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html

[ninjin]

Modern operating system booting on hardware that is closing in on 40 years old in just over three minutes, this is wild to see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btwiiZw3B2s

Kenji Aoyama truly is aligned with the best of the hacker spirit. As for getting your hands on a luna88k, I have no clue. The only thing I managed to find was a broken one that sold for ~USD 750 at an online auction.

[brynet]

If you're interested, you should check out Miod Vallat's Motorola 88k story.

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k.html

One interesting bit of trivial is Luna-88k workstations were heavily used to implement CMU Mach (which would eventually be used by Apple).

[mghackerlady]

I must've read about the sunos thing somewhere and imagined it still existed.

>luna88k, while related, is not 68k

I misremembered it as being similar to the relationship between the 6502 and the 65C816

[JdeBP]

It's worth mentioning at this point that one can still get (Open)Solaris descendent operating systems: OmniOS, SmartOS, and Tribblix. The latter still has SPARC in its installation guide.

* https://tribblix.org/install-sparc.html

[mxuribe]

Oh wow, that's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!

Another part of my nostalgia with those old workstations (besides the core OS) was the desktop environment, i think CDE or motif or something like that. Something about the look and feel of that DE i always thought was cool!