Flashback: Sun Ultra 10
These are my memories how I used several Sun Ultra 10
When I was in education, I played around with very many systems. One of my colleagues, Klaus, gave me 3 of them.
The hardware of these systems was not bad in these days:
- 440 MHz 64-Bit UltraSPARC IIi CPU
- 128 to 512 MB RAM
- a few GBs of SCSI hard disk
- CD-ROM drive
- special Sun keyboard including mouse
And the case was made of steel - carrying them around wasn't easy...
To just test what I can use them for, I was installing
- Solaris 7
- Solaris 8
- Solaris 9
That was great for learning how to handle Solaris. And, of course, installing Oracle on it. I remember how I often forgot to
- not run the installation from CD-ROM, but from a local folder - to be able to change the disks
- allow successful relinking by extending
$PATHby/usr/ccs/bin/usr/ucb
Later I also installed
- Gentoo
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
In fact, I never ran an OS longer than a few days, because I mostly just wanted to find out how to install it. But especially when installing Gentoo, I learnt a lot about Linux...
And as I ran these systems at home, I never wanted to let them run over night...