chris, 8 months ago to VintageComputing

For some this month was #Septandy, for others #Suntember. I say, why choose?

#VintageComputing #RetroComputing

A Sun Sparcstation Classic connected to a TRS-80 Model 100 via serial port. A MacBook and assorted cruft in the background.

stiefkind, 8 months ago to VintageComputing

Sunrise. #suntember #classiccomputing2023 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

stuartmarks, 8 months ago to Java

Not today’s T-shirt, but fitting for the end of #Suntember.

#Sun #Java

yakkoj, 8 months ago to random

Periodic reminder that Sun had a good ad campaign shortly before Oracle consumed them.

#Suntember

Sun ad throwing on-fire shade at DELL.

aka_pugs, 8 months ago to random

#Suntember #NFS History: Architecture diagram drawn at the 1st (and only?) NFS architecture offsite, sometime in 1983. It has held up well. #SunMicrosystems

stuartmarks, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Today’s T-shirt:

#Sun #SunMicrosystems #Suntember #Java

aka_pugs, 8 months ago to random

"Virtual Memory Architecture in SunOS" - this is the great work for SunOS 4.0 that allowed shared libraries, mmap'd files, and lots of other goodies. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1icqL3EoQB5eGzeu9j43sKpB03Ow7LoDH/view?usp=sharing #SunMicrosystems #Suntember

aka_pugs, 8 months ago to random

"SunOS Multi-thread Architecture" - Winter USENIX, 1991.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ey3K7zzKbT4gNNdSDzjJllgDRhdYtZgY/view?usp=sharing IIRC, this was for Solaris (SunOS 5+) #Suntember #SunMicrosystems

stuartmarks, 8 months ago to random

This article is about Intuit, but it has a picture of the sign at 2700 Coast Ave in Mountain View, a former #SunMicrosystems building. I worked in several Sun buildings in the area for many years. Most are now Intuit buildings.

#Suntember

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-intuit-black-taxpayers-irs-free-file-marketing

aka_pugs, 8 months ago to random

OTD 1990: #SunMicrosystems announces NeWSprint and the SPARCprinter. They were really nice products, but nobody cared. http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/unix/sun-info/sunflash/1990/Sep/21.24.newsprint #Suntember

aka_pugs, 8 months ago to random

#SunMicrosystems Price List of November, 1985 - 47 pages! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sjv_nqY-Imq_Uhw8mRQLZzhiZmpvy6rY/view?usp=sharing #Suntember I wrote the driver for that tape controller.

aka_pugs, 8 months ago to random

Stanford SUN board status & licensees as of Jan. 4, 1982: Cadlinc, Forward Technology, Pacific Microcomputer, Codata, and Imagen. Not mentioned is whether the licenses were from Stanford or AVB's company VLSI Systems (VSI). #Suntember #SunMicrosystems

aka_pugs, 8 months ago to random

#Suntember Excellent history of ARP, RARP, BOOTP, and DHCP, and the #SunMicrosystems involvement. By the inimitable John Gilmore. https://blog.apnic.net/2022/05/12/john-gilmore-on-arp-rarp-bootp-dhcp-and-sun/

kzimmermann, 8 months ago to RaspberryPi

#Suntember is nice, but can it be #SBCeptember, too? :)

#raspberrypi

GossiTheDog, 8 months ago to random

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sehnsucht, 8 months ago to VintageOSes

#Suntember musing.

Got a Sun Netra X1 for just 50€ from a private seller in Rome. He offered to deliver it to me personally.

The server came with Solaris 8 preinstalled, but I wanted to have a modern system on it. In lack of an optical drive, I set up a serial console to the Sun LOM, and took up the challenge of installing NetBSD over network, via DHCP/RARP and NFS [1]. (See screenshot).

#unix #solaris #sparc #retrocomputing #netbsd
[1] https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/202309171840Z/sparc64/INSTALL.html

Internals of the Netra X1 with upper lid removed. You can see the UltraSPARC-IIe CPU (center), 2 PC133 RAM modules (left), the power supply unit (right) and the IDE HDD (front).
Rear view of the Sun Nextra X1, showing (from left to right) the power switch button, the system configuration card reader, the serial A (LOM) and serial B ports, the USB ports (2), the ethernet ports (2) the LINK leds, the fault led and the power led.
Screenshot of my fvwm desktop (workstation) featuring two tiled windows: on the left, a terminal connected to the Netra X1 with NetBSD 9.3_STABLE installed, showing login greet screen, motd and a $(bsdfetch) output, containing valuable information on the running system. On the right, the official guide for the Netra X1 by Sun Miscrosystems in PDF format.

unixben, 8 months ago to random

#suntember My final post for Suntember, though strictly these are Oracle-era. These are silicon wafers of SPARC M7 if I recall correctly. Sunglasses for size comparison.

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kkarhan, 8 months ago to showerthoughts

#IndieFilm #idea for #Suntember:

#AfterTheSunset but instead of #PierceBrosnam stealing #Diamonds it's #LarryEllison trying to steal #Sun and turining #Lanai into a #Billionaire #TaxHaven...

[Just the Trailer OFC!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLOwRK2rKJY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai

alanc, 8 months ago to random

Walked around the office today (the Oracle Solaris & hardware building on the former #SunMicrosystems Santa Clara, California campus) and took some pictures for #Suntember. First up, some of our wall art:

Photograph of SPARC M7 chip layout
Photograph of SPARC S7 chip layout
Photograph of SPARC M6 chip layout

alanc, 8 months ago to random

@danmcd guess what picture I saw in the office today? A bunch of young kids!
#Suntember