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                      3:        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
1.3       fn          4: <html>
1.1       deraadt     5: <head>
                      6: <title>OpenBSD/sun3</title>
1.45      miod        7: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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.">
1.63      tb         10: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
                     11: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="openbsd.css">
1.64      tb         12: <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.openbsd.org/sun3.html">
1.3       fn         13: </head>
                     14:
1.45      miod       15: <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#23238e">
1.1       deraadt    16:
1.63      tb         17: <h2>
                     18: <a href="index.html">
                     19: <font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
                     20: <font color="#e00000">sun3</font>
                     21: </h2>
1.3       fn         22: <hr>
1.63      tb         23: <p>
1.1       deraadt    24:
1.54      miod       25: OpenBSD/sun3 used to run on the Motorola 68020-based Sun3 computers, except
                     26: for the 3/E flavour and the 3/50.
1.35      ericj      27:
1.56      deraadt    28: <strong>The OpenBSD/sun3 port was discontinued after the 2.9 release.</strong>
1.35      ericj      29:
1.62      deraadt    30: <br clear=all>
                     31: <hr>
1.1       deraadt    32:
1.45      miod       33: <a name="history"></a>
                     34: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
                     35:
                     36: <p>
                     37: The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the
                     38: sun3 and sun3x ports were still different entities. Noone showed much
                     39: interest in OpenBSD/sun3 for a while, although the code was mostly kept in
                     40: sync with NetBSD.
                     41: </p>
                     42:
                     43: <p>
                     44: Eventually, Kenneth Stailey started working on the port, but since he was
                     45: living in the USA, he could not export a release he would have built, so he
                     46: lost interest working on this port.
                     47: </p>
                     48:
                     49: <p>
1.50      miod       50: Early 2000, Miod Vallat attempted to bring the port back in shape, making
1.45      miod       51: the code compile again, and devising completely new installation media. The
1.48      jmc        52: port even shipped with complete X Window System client and utilities, although
                     53: there was no working X server.
1.45      miod       54: </p>
                     55:
                     56: <p>
                     57: The port lived for a few releases, but unfortunately hardware problems and
                     58: lack of time conspired to prevent catching up with NetBSD on code, and the
                     59: sun3 code was not ready for the switch from the old Mach virtual memory
                     60: system to
1.65    ! tb         61: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=uvm&amp;sektion=9">uvm</a>,
1.45      miod       62: and missed the 3.0 release, hoping that the code would be fixed in time
                     63: for the 3.1 release. Unfortunately, this has not been the case, and eventually
                     64: it was decided to remove the code from the tree.
                     65: </p>
1.11      kstailey   66:
1.35      ericj      67: <hr>
1.45      miod       68: <a name="hardware"></a>
                     69: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
                     70:
                     71: <h4>Supported models</h4>
1.36      miod       72:
1.45      miod       73: <ul>
                     74:   <li>3/60, 3/60LE
                     75:   <li>3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180
                     76:   <li>3/110
                     77:   <li>3/260 and 3/280
                     78: </ul>
                     79: OpenBSD will not run on 3/160 family machines with only 2MB of memory,
                     80: and very hardly on 4MB machines whichever the model is.
1.11      kstailey   81:
1.45      miod       82: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
1.21      kstailey   83:
1.26      kstailey   84: <ul>
1.45      miod       85: <li>On-board serial ports
                     86: <li>Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse
                     87: <li>On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)
                     88: <li>On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)
1.49      nick       89: <li>On-board or VME sun-3 SCSI controller, currently with some limitations
1.26      kstailey   90: </ul>
1.45      miod       91: <hr>
                     92: <a name="install"></a>
                     93: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
                     94: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3:</strong>
                     95: </font></h3>
1.26      kstailey   96:
1.52      jaredy     97: The last supported OpenBSD/sun3 release was
1.45      miod       98: <a href="29.html">OpenBSD 2.9</a>.
1.3       fn         99:
                    100: </body>
                    101: </html>