[wplug] Installfest: SPARCstation IPX

[Bryan J. Smith]

Neal Sofge <neal_sofge at rand.org> wrote:
> Anyone want to try getting the above-mentioned system running this 
> Saturday?  It's accompanied by a 10-Base-T transceiver, but nothing
> else (which means no adapters for the funky Sun ports for
> video-out, SCSI, or keyboard; plastic covers are still in place
> over the two serial ports).
> Vance suggests looking here for specs: <http://www.obsolyte.com/ 
> sun_ipx/>.

I remember doing GNU/VxWorks development on Solaris on these boxes in
the '90s.  We had a lot of them and I didn't have to complain to get
64MB of RAM, like I did if I wanted to run the Cygwin toolchain on a
Windows PC.

Luckily I finally just moved to a Linux host on PC instead.  After
using SLS/Slackware for so many years for server, I became a Red Hat
wennie for my newfound developer desktop.  Especially since Red Hat
finally took a lead in kernel NFS support starting with Red Hat Linux
5.2 with kernel 2.2 in 1998.

So I then recycled a lot of these boxes, along with DECstations, as
NetBSD-based X/terminals.


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