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                      6: <title>OpenBSD/sun3</title>
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1.3       fn          8: <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/sun3 page">
1.54      miod        9: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996-2013 by OpenBSD.">
1.57      sthen      10: <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.openbsd.org/sun3.html">
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                     14: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
                     15: <p>
                     16: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sun3</font></h2>
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1.3       fn         18: <hr>
1.1       deraadt    19:
1.54      miod       20: OpenBSD/sun3 used to run on the Motorola 68020-based Sun3 computers, except
                     21: for the 3/E flavour and the 3/50.
1.35      ericj      22:
1.56      deraadt    23: <strong>The OpenBSD/sun3 port was discontinued after the 2.9 release.</strong>
1.35      ericj      24:
1.62    ! deraadt    25: <br clear=all>
        !            26: <hr>
1.1       deraadt    27:
1.45      miod       28: <a name="history"></a>
                     29: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
                     30:
                     31: <p>
                     32: The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the
                     33: sun3 and sun3x ports were still different entities. Noone showed much
                     34: interest in OpenBSD/sun3 for a while, although the code was mostly kept in
                     35: sync with NetBSD.
                     36: </p>
                     37:
                     38: <p>
                     39: Eventually, Kenneth Stailey started working on the port, but since he was
                     40: living in the USA, he could not export a release he would have built, so he
                     41: lost interest working on this port.
                     42: </p>
                     43:
                     44: <p>
1.50      miod       45: Early 2000, Miod Vallat attempted to bring the port back in shape, making
1.45      miod       46: the code compile again, and devising completely new installation media. The
1.48      jmc        47: port even shipped with complete X Window System client and utilities, although
                     48: there was no working X server.
1.45      miod       49: </p>
                     50:
                     51: <p>
                     52: The port lived for a few releases, but unfortunately hardware problems and
                     53: lack of time conspired to prevent catching up with NetBSD on code, and the
                     54: sun3 code was not ready for the switch from the old Mach virtual memory
                     55: system to
1.61      sthen      56: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=uvm&amp;sektion=9">uvm</a>,
1.45      miod       57: and missed the 3.0 release, hoping that the code would be fixed in time
                     58: for the 3.1 release. Unfortunately, this has not been the case, and eventually
                     59: it was decided to remove the code from the tree.
                     60: </p>
1.11      kstailey   61:
1.35      ericj      62: <hr>
1.45      miod       63: <a name="hardware"></a>
                     64: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
                     65:
1.35      ericj      66: <p>
1.45      miod       67: <h4>Supported models</h4>
1.36      miod       68: </p>
                     69:
                     70: <p>
1.45      miod       71: <ul>
                     72:   <li>3/60, 3/60LE
                     73:   <li>3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180
                     74:   <li>3/110
                     75:   <li>3/260 and 3/280
                     76: </ul>
                     77: OpenBSD will not run on 3/160 family machines with only 2MB of memory,
                     78: and very hardly on 4MB machines whichever the model is.
1.36      miod       79: </p>
1.11      kstailey   80:
1.45      miod       81: <p>
                     82: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
1.36      miod       83: </p>
1.21      kstailey   84:
1.45      miod       85: <p>
1.26      kstailey   86: <ul>
1.45      miod       87: <li>On-board serial ports
                     88: <li>Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse
                     89: <li>On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)
                     90: <li>On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)
1.49      nick       91: <li>On-board or VME sun-3 SCSI controller, currently with some limitations
1.26      kstailey   92: </ul>
1.45      miod       93: </p>
                     94:
                     95: <hr>
                     96: <a name="install"></a>
                     97: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
                     98: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3:</strong>
                     99: </font></h3>
1.26      kstailey  100:
1.35      ericj     101: <p>
1.52      jaredy    102: The last supported OpenBSD/sun3 release was
1.45      miod      103: <a href="29.html">OpenBSD 2.9</a>.
1.35      ericj     104: </p>
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