Hurrah! Finally, after a new hard disk, graphics card and power supply I have got more than a couple of hours out of my Silicon Graphics Indigo 2. I could very easily have given up on this system – the initial cost of shipping it from the Isle of Man to UK of 8 pounds …
The last couple of days, having configured the pre-installed copy of Solaris 7 on the Ultra 5 I’ve been looking to get enough of the GNU toolchain on the box to allow me to compile SIMH successfully. In the past, when I had the Tadpole Sparcstation and I’d installed Solaris 2.6 I retrieve binary packages …
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The Sun Ultra 5 came with Solaris 7 pre-installed (I thought it would be Solaris 2.6 but it must have just been made after Solaris 7 came out). No Solaris 7 media package is supplied with the machine so what happens is that on the first boot the machine goes through the configuration sequence for …
I’ve been getting busy with my new Sun Ultra 5. I was quite fortunate to recently score a brand new in box, old stock vintage November 1998 Sun Ultra 5. This is a commodity-level workstation built by Sun to satisfy the need for a low-cost UltraSparc desktop computer that would run their Solaris range of …