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0 pointsmceachen5y ago0 comments

If you booted single-user or didn't have a graphical login manager, you'd see this on the console on SunOS 4 and earlier (80s and 90s, pre-Solaris). I think by the time Solaris (or even open look) rolled around, it had a graphical user login.

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brirec5y ago· 1 in thread

Solaris 2.6 and 7 didn’t have a graphical boot splash, so you’d see this while watching a SPARC box boot up.

cellularmitosis5y ago

Just recently found an adafruit guide to building a solaris 2.6 setup using QEMU. The nostalgia!

https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-an...

edit: just remembered that you sadly don't get to see Sun Gallant Demi in all its glory, because it boots using the QEMU openfirmware.

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