I answered a question on the #tuhs mailing list with a little history on userspace page 0 in #SunOS and #Solaris :
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-January/033124.html
I answered a question on the #tuhs mailing list with a little history on userspace page 0 in #SunOS and #Solaris :
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-January/033124.html
Segmentation faults can be funny.
#SitcomsTaughtMe
#HashTagGames
#SunOS #TheITCrowd
#UNIX #Linux
Fun story! :-) The case of the 500-mile email ― Andreas Zwinkau https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/500mile_email.html via @wallabagapp
🎶 New blog post / it's one you can read / this Sun's Timekeeper is toast / so why don't we / cut a hole in it with a Dremel? 🎶
#sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse
https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/30/sparcstation-1-timekeeper-battery-fix-dremel.html
Cleaning and restoring this SUN SPARCstation 330 from 1989. They built these things like vaults. It’s perfectly clean on the inside but hasn’t been powered on in 30 years.
#unix_surrealism #SUNmicrosystems #UNIX #SunOS #Solaris #SPARC
Someone's old Sun SPARCstation IPX fan page I ran across today, randomly.
I love old pages like this.
https://williambader.com/museum/sunipx/sunipx.html
#SUN #SPARC #SPARCstation #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #oldwebsites #derelictpages #workstations #Solaris #SunOS
Ok, here's the blog post!
If you've wanted to party like it's 1994 and experience life on planet #Unix _before_ Solaris, why not try a bit of #RetroComputing and try #SunOS 4 on an emulated #SPARCstation 5? https://apintandaparma.club/cos/falling-down-a-rabbit-hole-of-nostalgia-episode-1-sunos-4
Falling down a rabbit hole of nostalgia, episode 1 - SunOS 4
(or: running SunOS 4 on an emulated SPARCstation in 2025 with QEMU 10.1.) [...]
https://apintandaparma.club/cos/falling-down-a-rabbit-hole-of-nostalgia-episode-1-sunos-4
Alright, so I fell down the #SunOS 4 #emulation rabbit hole, piecing together a bunch of instructions and finding something that worked. See up and down from this post for more info.
I wonder if it's similarly possible to emulate an old DECstation running Ultrix?
#RetroComputing #Unix #90s https://aus.social/@cos/115597055734516482
New Friend in #SantaCruz ...
I juggle (learned because SUN Servers came with three sand-balls and in the #SunOS manual, there was a chapter on how to juggle while you were waiting for the OS to install) and so Brah invited me to Tuesday Juggling at Capitola Beach!
I think I'd very much like that.
Seems tme is getting some new love.
https://github.com/phabrics/nme
#sun2 #sun3 #sunmicrosystems #sunos #emulator #unix
@yakmoose @kimapr @catsalad: Back in the 90s we did that with kernels. You can actually hear the difference between a #Linux and a #SunOS kernel. 🤓🧔🧓
#UncleAxelTalksAboutTheTimeBeforeTheBigCyberWar #OnkelAxelErzähltVonVorDemGroßenCyberkrieg
Today somethin different than FreeBSD for a change (but still Unix!). Brings back so many memories from 2001-2005 when I was administering Solaris machines during my first job.
Even some commands still were in my head like zones (OS virtualization. somewhat like Jails but different isolation :)
# Install zone
zoneadm -z myzone install
# Boot zone
zoneadm -z myzone boot
# Check if zone is running
sudo zoneadm list -cv
# Llogin to zone
sudo zlogin myzone
So much nostangia :-) ☕
#freebsd #solaris #opensolaris #illumos #sunos #sunmicrosystems #unix #openindiana
SunOS 4.1.4 Installation