> > > > I will dust off my ss20 this weekend see if it powers up. > > > > > > > > > > A SparcStation 20 is a relic for historical reference only. A cool > > > item and if it powers up I would be surprised. However it won't > > > make any more sense than to have a 1976 Ford truck as a daily > > > driver. > > > > > > It would be a waste of effort to look at anything previous to a > > > Sun Fire V890 or any UltraSPARC IV based server. There are very > > > few out there running Solaris any more and only hobby types have > > > SPARC anywhere else. > > > > > > I ran OpenBSD 5.4 briefly on a small UltraSPARC Netra and it ran > > > very well. However I ran into issues trying to compile things. I > > > may look at OpenBSD again but really anything less than a modern > > > Niagara class UltraSparc would be wasted efforts I think. > > > > You are speaking out of turn, basically insulting people who want > > to make sure that older architectures do work. The Sun Fire V890 > > and Niagara machines are not sparc architecture. They are sparc64. > > > > Not sure where the anger is coming from. Regardless, there may be people > that are interested in running OpenBSD on a DEC alphaserver or even a > Sun SparcStation 20 from 1996 and that may just be entertainment. I > would hope that there was an interest in more modern architectures where > OpenBSD may run very very well.
Oh just shut up. I would hope you can keep your mouth shut when people talk about the things they love to hack on. Because otherwise, you know, you might come off looking like you are a self-entitled prick who only wants them to work on things you want, you know?
