Annotation of www/sun3.html, Revision 1.62
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1.1 deraadt 5: <head>
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:
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! 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&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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106: </body>
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