[geeks] OpenSolaris on a mainframe

Jonathan J. M. Katz jon at jonworld.com
Thu Mar 5 09:07:47 CST 2009


On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us>wrote:

> " From: Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com>
> " MacPPC would be nice too.
>
> that would be polaris, if it's still alive.
>

There are Solaris 2.5.1 CDs for PPC out in the wild. I remember having to
fix/patch a Motorola PowerPC workstation many, many moons ago.

I doubt they'd run on G3/G4 hardware without some device driver love.

-Jon



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