Sun SPARCstation 5

Sun's 1994 entry-level "Aurora," topped out with a 170 MHz TurboSPARC — SPARC for the masses

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Sun SPARCstation 10

The first Sun desktop to fit two CPUs, with the modular MBus that made compute upgrades a slot-in affair

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Sun SPARCstation 20

The pinnacle "Kodiak" pizza box, built to take four CPUs — this one runs a 125 MHz ROSS hyperSPARC

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Converting a SunOS 4.1.4 Disk from sun4c to sun4m

Grafting sun4m kernel architecture onto a heavily customized sun4c SunOS 4.1.4 root so it boots on an SS5 and under QEMU, without reinstalling and without disturbing the userland

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Interactive Sun IDPROM Reset Tool — M48T02 / M48T08 / M48T59

Interactive web tool that automatically generates the OpenBoot mkp commands to reprogram the IDPROM after replacing or battery-modding any Sun timekeeper NVRAM chip — M48T02, M48T08, M48T18, M48T35, M48T59 — on a SPARCstation.

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Solaris 2.6 Disk Image Notes

README for the Solaris 2.6 prototype disk images hosted on oldsilicon.com — security, networking setup, CDE, preinstalled compilers and GNU tools, and the full /usr/local/bin listing

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Locked Out: Clearing the Firmware Password on Vintage Sun Workstations

How to bypass and clear a firmware password on Sun SPARCstations and Ultras when the timekeeper chip has lost its memory

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Sun Boot ROM and Firmware Image Archive

Downloadable OpenBoot PROM and firmware images for Sun workstations and servers

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Last OpenBoot PROM Versions for Sun Workstations

Reference table of the final OBP firmware versions available for each Sun workstation model

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CDE Keyboard Repeat Rate on Solaris 2.6

How to increase the keyboard repeat rate in CDE on Solaris 2.6 by configuring Xsun server options

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M48T02 Timekeeper External Battery Mod

How to add an external coin cell battery to M48T02 timekeeper chips

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The Rise and Fall of SPARCstation Clones

When Sun had competition from its own architecture

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Resetting IDPROM on Sun Workstations

How to reprogram the IDPROM on sun4c, sun4m, sun4d, and sun4u workstations

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