> > <snip> > > > 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 A SparcStation 20 is a relic for historical reference only.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. Dennis
