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Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Nice to see mfsBSD for FreeBSD. Pity it has taken this long though. OpenBSD has had it for years, I remember installing SUNOS with a MFS BSD as well. ;)

#FreeBSD #SunOS #Sun3 #OpenBSD

#osx nae mehr! I was actually wondering whatever happened to x windows and if I could run my imac as a mac mini monitor that way. #linux #sunos

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fvxecvdtoy5zjdw2bhin7uh4/post/3mkiupbgpmc2k

Someone did it ! A #sun3 clone https://github.com/54weasels/sun3_60
#sunos #sunmicrosystems #m68k #unix

Segmentation faults can be funny.

#SitcomsTaughtMe
#HashTagGames
#SunOS #TheITCrowd
#UNIX #Linux

@lproven tldr; they only madr it work by hacking an undocumented Windows interface

#Microsoft #Windows #hotmail #unix #sunos #Solaris

Yes, the picture accompanying this post was just what I had handy, and was SunOS and not Solaris. To make up for it, here's the CDE Phone.
#SunOS #Solaris #CDE

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

Seems tme is getting some new love.
https://github.com/phabrics/nme
#sun2 #sun3 #sunmicrosystems #sunos #emulator #unix

@qlp

This is great! I didn't know these films existed. I left Sun in 1989 and became a reseller for some of the software mentioned here. At Sun, I had worked in the write/draw/paint project where we modified the xview libraries to display Open Look on the older window system, just as OpenWindows was being rolled out. It helped sell the suite, but marketing didn't like that we stole the thunder of X11/NeWs with this so called "Leif Look", and they banned it for future use.

#OpenLook #OpenWindows #SunOS

Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for #Comcast #Cellular was upgrading the engineers' Sun #Unix workstations from the #BSD-based #SunOS 4 to #SVR4-based SunOS 5 (#Solaris 2), and from #NIS / #YellowPages to NIS+.

In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)

DNS is so critical to the modern Internet, yet it's so often taken for granted. NCommander explores The Old Ways of life with UNIX without DNS.

Netscape, But It Doesn't Support DNS (ft. SunOS 4 and NIS) https://youtube.com/watch?v=72IngPgZQM4

#retrocomputing #retronetworking #internethistory #computerhistory #sunmicrosystems #sunos #solaris #unix #netscape #ncommander

@pantyhosewimp I was still in college at #Drexel and had a #Mac LC on my dorm room desk.

I could dial into one of the school’s #SunOS systems, though. RIP DUNX1: https://drexel.edu/it/help/a-z/dunx1/

Not entirely accurate but good enough for a laugh
#Linux #SCO #Unixware #SunOS #Solaris #HP-UX #AIX #Meme

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@swagpussc (...continued)
Often forgotten by people is the period in between. The people who cloned Linux and the (GNU) "shell" around it often worked from samizdat doco about 1970s Unix.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, there were a whole bunch of commercial #Unix flavours: #Xenix, HP/UX, #AIX, #SunOS, #Ultrix, OSF/1, AT&T System 3, AT&T System 5, ...

#Illumos, which came from #Solaris, which came from SunOS, is actually still around.

https://illumos.org

#SVR3 #SVR5
(continued...)

The third and final #SPARCStation from storage. Another #SS20 with EPROM and two Seagate Barracuda SCSI HDD, CDROM, and an updated, third-party Ross CPU module.

I think the remaining Sun/Sparc stuff are peripherals.

Next steps: Solaris OS installation/upgrade, development environment!

#SunMicrosystems #VintageComputing #RetroComputing #RISC #Sparc #Solaris #SunOS

@hal_pomeranz Microware OS-9 on a personal Dragon 64, back in the 1980s. Then at work, various Intel boxes from Regnecentralen running SunOS around 1990. In 1996 trying out Red Hat Linux dual boot, and Linux ever since.
#Microware #OS-9 #MC6809 #Regnecentralen #SunOS #RedHatLinux #Linux

#introduction

#hello people. Ståle from Norway. I've been doing tactical and strategic #infosec and #irt in #HigherED for the last seven years. It all started with a bunch of diskettes and c.o.l.a. in 1993, and since then I've worked as a sysadmin. Mostly unix-es, but also Windows. This includes project management, #monitoring, #architecture, designing an #operations center and touching a bunch of technologies over the years. I still code a little #shell and #python. Been using #cfengine and #tivoli with a smile.

A memorable moment still is opening 7 xterms and compiling X11R6 for #sunos #solaris #hp-ux #ultrix #irix #linux #digitalunix and managing the configuration and security of tons of servers and clients centrally. This must have been 2000 or so.

These days I tend to like logging and #siem frameworks like #elk, teaching users and management how to make smart choices, general config management and hardening, IAM-stuff and the essential symbiosis between #sysadmin stuff and infosec stuff. #isms. #policies. #architecture.

I also like #photography #lego #rpg #larp #cooking #politics #society #emacs #languages #puns. A lot nicer than the picture. He/Him.

@PeterSommerlad @derkern Well you've got me beat by about 5 years! I've been using #Debian as my primary desktop OS since about 1995. Some brief stints with BSDs in there but not much. Occasionally used #SunOS, #BSDi, and #MacOS at work during that timeframe, but the majority of my work hours during that time have also been under #Debian.

I also run it on my #RaspberryPi units and on my servers.

I hadn't heard of Apollo/Siemens - had to look it up. Interesting!

@PeterSommerlad @derkern Well you've got me beat by about 5 years! I've been using #Debian as my primary desktop OS since about 1995. Some brief stints with BSDs in there but not much. Occasionally used #SunOS, #BSDi, and #MacOS at work during that timeframe, but the majority of my work hours during that time have also been under #Debian.

I also run it on my #RaspberryPi units and on my servers.

I hadn't heard of Apollo/Siemens - had to look it up. Interesting!

@PeterSommerlad @derkern Well you've got me beat by about 5 years! I've been using #Debian as my primary desktop OS since about 1995. Some brief stints with BSDs in there but not much. Occasionally used #SunOS, #BSDi, and #MacOS at work during that timeframe, but the majority of my work hours during that time have also been under #Debian.

I also run it on my #RaspberryPi units and on my servers.

I hadn't heard of Apollo/Siemens - had to look it up. Interesting!

@PeterSommerlad @derkern Well you've got me beat by about 5 years! I've been using #Debian as my primary desktop OS since about 1995. Some brief stints with BSDs in there but not much. Occasionally used #SunOS, #BSDi, and #MacOS at work during that timeframe, but the majority of my work hours during that time have also been under #Debian.

I also run it on my #RaspberryPi units and on my servers.

I hadn't heard of Apollo/Siemens - had to look it up. Interesting!

@bkhan @imakefoss I use Linux 'cause unfortunately the BSDs didn't really take off as well* as Linux did and #SunOS, #VMS and #TOPS20 are not really viable options anymore.

* Insert long discussion about the FreeBSD layer on top of the Mach kernel that is (apple not Cisco) IOS here.