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Martin Bishop<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeWS</span></a> (Network extensible Window System) was a windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems, released in 1986. It employed client-server architecture with the client side programmable using Object Oriented PostScript. NeWS was created by James Gosling, who later developed Java<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XWINDOW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XWINDOW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SUNMICROSYSTEMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SUNMICROSYSTEMS</span></a> <br>Via unix_byte</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DenOfEarth</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ytc1</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aka_pugs</span></a></span> well <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> owned the workstation market because <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Vendors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vendors</span></a> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SGI</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> failed to innovate...</p><ul><li>Abeit sgi hals self-inflicted that by removing the reasons to buy their stuff when they switched to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Itanium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Itanium</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CPU</span></a>|s and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nvidia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPU</span></a>|s and not developing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IRIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRIX</span></a> any further! </li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> at least didn't stall in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a>, but once <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> acqured them and started shaking down Sun Technology users for <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a> infringement"</em> and <em>"License Violations"</em> they basically made using anythibg but <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> a bad choice on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Servers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Servers</span></a>!</p><ul><li>Meanwhile <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> to this day doesn't even halfass <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Servers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Servers</span></a> anymore and is constantly giving customers and espechally professionals the middle finger in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Repairability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Repairability</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Maintainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maintainability</span></a>!</li></ul>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ytc1</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DenOfEarth</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aka_pugs</span></a></span> I know.</p><p>And espechally in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ScientificComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificComputing</span></a> a lot of researchers <em>loved</em> working with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> and when <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CEO</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LarryEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LarryEllison</span></a>...</p><p>-&gt; <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.space/@kkarhan/1146825</span><span class="invisible">03920794745</span></a></p><p>One of the big successes of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> was that they basically declared a unilateral <em>"ceasefire"</em> in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patents</span></a> re: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a>. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.</p><ul><li>Without that <em>cooperative</em> atmosphere we saw <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenOffice</span></a> devs literally <em>forking off</em> into <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>libreoffice</span></a></span> and projects like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@openzfs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>openzfs</span></a></span> scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue that.</li></ul><p>Obviously <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> with it's <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv2only" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv2only</span></a>-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get <em>'closed-sourced'</em> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSolaris</span></a> which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a> for profits and milk their clients <em>in typical Oracle fashion</em>...</p><ul><li>Which is sad because <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a> breeds <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</span></a> and a lot of stuff like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Zones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zones</span></a> in Solaris really were at their time really forcing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/KVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KVM</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bhyve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bhyve</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BSDjails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSDjails</span></a> to up their game for good.</li></ul><p>Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/postfix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postfix</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sendmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sendmail</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/courier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courier</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MailServers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MailServers</span></a> on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SysV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SysV</span></a> - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> systems Solaris and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SunOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunOS</span></a> really are one of the reasons <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> won the <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WorkstationWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkstationWar</span></a>"</em> and why - if anyone - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> won the last <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UnixWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnixWar</span></a>"</em>...</p><ul><li>Still I do am sad that I declined that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a> position at a leading research center <em>I'm not at liberty to name</em> and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...</li></ul><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/114689337148586939" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/1146893</span><span class="invisible">37148586939</span></a></p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>OTD 2005: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> open-sources <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a>. 20 years!</p><p><a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/sun-begins-open-source-solaris-era/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/su</span><span class="invisible">n-begins-open-source-solaris-era/</span></a></p>
Stuart Marks<p>Another great Jon Feiber story. In the 1980s Sun had weekly beer busts and there was a raffle where the cash prize was based on the week’s sales bookings, or something like that. One week, Feiber won the raffle. But he had just been promoted to management, and managers weren’t eligible for the raffle. So Feiber sent an announcement saying he was donating the winnings to his favorite non-profit: Sun’s Software Products Division.</p><p>(SPD was run by Eric Schmidt at the time.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a></p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>OTD 1992: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> announces the SPARCstation 10, the first Sun desktop multiprocessor.<br>Brochure: <a href="https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsparcstation10%2Epdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?</span><span class="invisible">file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsparcstation10%2Epdf</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pl.valkyrie.world/users/VD15" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>VD15</span></a></span> I'm still mad that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FTC</span></a> &amp; <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> allowed <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> to buy <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a>!</p>
Mike<p>Switzerland is hosting Eurovision this year. How did the country that produced one of the most iconic fonts of all time, that’s even named after their country, decide to use Garamond?! <br>Helvetica would have been perfection. </p><p>(I do appreciate that Garamond italic insofar as it reminds me of the Sun Microsystems wordmark)</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Eurovision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eurovision</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ESC2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ESC2025</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a></p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>43 years ago today: Joining <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a></p><p><a href="https://akapugs.blog/2022/05/03/674/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">akapugs.blog/2022/05/03/674/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Jamie Booth<p>The Sun stack is now fully working with KVM for the keyboard and mouse. The Mac stack has hit a snag because the custom cable that NTI used to connect 8 pin minidin to ADB is unobtainable. I had to order parts to build my own.</p><p>NTI made some pretty cool KVMs in the pre-USB days. They actually work with Sun, Mac, or PS/2.</p><p><a href="https://boothcomputing.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a><br><a href="https://boothcomputing.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> <br><a href="https://boothcomputing.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a></p>
shuppy<p>got a sparcstation but no keyboard or mouse? tired of having to reprogram your idprom over and over?</p><p>usb3sun lets you connect usb keyboards and mice to your sun workstation, and it can reprogram your idprom with just a few keystrokes ☀️</p><p>rev B1 now available → <a href="https://go.daz.cat/usb3sun" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://go.daz.cat/usb3sun</a></p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fedi.shuppy.org/tag/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fedi.shuppy.org/tag/sparcstation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparcstation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fedi.shuppy.org/tag/sunmicrosystems" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sunmicrosystems</a></p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>OTD 1989: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> announces the SPARCstation 1. Datasheet: <a href="https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsparc%2Fsparcstation1%2Epdf#zoom=page-fit" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?</span><span class="invisible">file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsparc%2Fsparcstation1%2Epdf#zoom=page-fit</span></a></p><p>Purple feet!</p>
Mike<p>Someone near Frankfurt is giving away two Sun StorEDGE units. I wish I had a house so I could adopt these. </p><p><a href="https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/sun-microsystems-storedge-l700e-l180/3041337943-225-4501" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/sun</span><span class="invisible">-microsystems-storedge-l700e-l180/3041337943-225-4501</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a></p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>**Sun Microsystems’s Storage History – The Early Years**</p><p><a href="https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Sun_Microsystems%E2%80%99s_Storage_History_%E2%80%93_The_Early_Years" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ethw.org/First-Hand:Sun_Micros</span><span class="invisible">ystems%E2%80%99s_Storage_History_%E2%80%93_The_Early_Years</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a></p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>OTD 1982: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> is incorporated.<br> <br>Preliminary business plan (as VLSI Systems, Inc.): <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AISiLW3rBJQhArztoQ5p5K12Z4Bj2hru/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drive.google.com/file/d/1AISiL</span><span class="invisible">W3rBJQhArztoQ5p5K12Z4Bj2hru/view?usp=sharing</span></a></p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>Serial number 1 of the JavaStation 1 is up on EBay: <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/195650243344" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ebay.com/itm/195650243344</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>You can run NetBSD on it: <a href="https://fatsquirrel.org/oldfartsalmanac/netbsd-on-a-javastation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fatsquirrel.org/oldfartsalmana</span><span class="invisible">c/netbsd-on-a-javastation/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Java</span></a></p>
Cycling Europe<p><a href="https://www.cyclingeu.com/493927/reviving-the-sunray-sun-microsystems-forgotten-terminal-server-thin-client/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cyclingeu.com/493927/reviving-</span><span class="invisible">the-sunray-sun-microsystems-forgotten-terminal-server-thin-client/</span></a> Reviving the SunRay: Sun Microsystems’ Forgotten Terminal Server &amp; Thin Client #<a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>germany</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Bicycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bicycling</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BicyclingGermany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BicyclingGermany</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Biking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biking</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BikingGermany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikingGermany</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cycling</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CyclingBorkenGermany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyclingBorkenGermany</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CyclingGermany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyclingGermany</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Deutschland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deutschland</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/phintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phintage</span></a>.phunsites.net <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solaris</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Solaris9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris9</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SunTerminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunTerminal</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SunThinClient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunThinClient</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SunFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunFire</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SunRay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunRay</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SunRay1G" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunRay1G</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SunRayServer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunRayServer</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/V120" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>V120</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vintage</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a></p>
Jamie Booth<p>I've been trying to figure out why the GUI for Solaris 10 wasn't working on my Ultra 5. It installed just fine but only boots to a text login. I noticed when trying to reinstall that it prints a message saying GUI mode setup is only available with 768MB of RAM. I have a suspicion that the same restriction must apply to the normal GUI as well.</p><p><a href="https://boothcomputing.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <br><a href="https://boothcomputing.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> <br><a href="https://boothcomputing.social/tags/SunUltra5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunUltra5</span></a><br><a href="https://boothcomputing.social/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a></p>
Raccoon🏳️‍🌈<p>Randomly thinking about this the other day, still think it's crazy that <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Java</span></a> was this huge important <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ProgrammingLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProgrammingLanguage</span></a> when I was first learning to program back in the 2000s, then <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> was bought by <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> in the 2010s when I was teaching for the certifications, and now in the 2020s it's become this depreciated legacy language. The success of the less-portable and less-learned copycat .Net and staying power of the older <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> shows there was clearly a market for Java to continue, but the large <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/corporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporation</span></a> was so much more interested in filing lawsuits against people who were doing things with the language than actually developing it further with modern features, they actually managed to push it into obscurity. </p><p>And we can't forget that this was a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR LOSS. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS had been spent to build up infrastructure to support the widespread use of this language across the industry, so when they dropped all support, and all of that became obsolete for no other reason.</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://labyrinth.zone/users/yassie_j" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>yassie_j</span></a></span> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> really <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/enshittufued" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittufued</span></a> all the stuff they got from <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a>.</p><ul><li>RIP <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Java</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenOffice</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ZFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZFS</span></a>, ...</li></ul>
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