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> OpenBSD supports sparc very well and is compatible with old sunos stuff (iirc) No 32-bit sparc anymore (only UltraSPARC, aka sparc64). No SunOS compatibilit
by brynet 4mo 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 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 https://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html
- mghackerlady 4mo agoI 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
- ninjin 4mo agoModern 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 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 4mo agoIf you're interested, you should check out Miod Vallat's Motorola 88k story. http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k.html 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).