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0 pointsicedchai2y ago0 comments

I used to run Netscape on a Sun workstation running Solaris, supposedly the pinnacle of late 90's Unix stability. It would segfault literally every half hour.

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scarface_742y ago

Of course my poor little Mac running System 7 didn’t stand a chance in all of its non memory protected, cooperative multitasking glory.

sillywalk2y ago

Did you ever run Internet Explorer on Solaris?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX

icedchaiOP2y ago

I did try it once! It was a pig. Possibly the system I was running it on (Ultra 10, 256 megs RAM) was too under powered.

sillywalk2y ago

Cool.

Useless info:

As an untrained 'intern' I managed to install Solaris on an Ultra 10 that the company I was contracted to help somehow never managed. Later I got to keep it. Ditto a Sun Enterprise 450.

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baz002y ago

Same. It'd hose the whole X stack sometimes. That's how I learned about STOP+A.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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scarface_742y ago

Of course my poor little Mac running System 7 didn’t stand a chance in all of its non memory protected, cooperative multitasking glory.

sillywalk2y ago

Did you ever run Internet Explorer on Solaris?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX

icedchaiOP2y ago

I did try it once! It was a pig. Possibly the system I was running it on (Ultra 10, 256 megs RAM) was too under powered.

sillywalk2y ago

Cool.

Useless info:

As an untrained 'intern' I managed to install Solaris on an Ultra 10 that the company I was contracted to help somehow never managed. Later I got to keep it. Ditto a Sun Enterprise 450.

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baz002y ago

Same. It'd hose the whole X stack sometimes. That's how I learned about STOP+A.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse