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by brynet 25 days ago
> 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

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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.

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).

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