Dave wrote:
I know of people who have got things from directly from Sun for old
machines.

They may have, but it's not official.


I'm not sure if you can get 8 or 9 now. Perhaps 9, but I've not seen 8.
Must admit I have not looked too hard. I am typing this on a machine
with Solaris 10

Yes, you can. I did it recently for a Sun4m computer.

That is not true. OpenSolaris runs on x86 and x64 hardware. I know that,
as I installed it myself.

Totally irrelevant. There are NO old SUN machines with X86 or X64 processors.
SunOS 5 has been available for X86 computers since Sun bought what became
it from Kodak. However it's only been about years that Sun has sold X86/X64
computers.


Or perhaps you mean it does not support early *SPARC* processors. If so,
I would agree with you.

That's it, you said old Sun computers.


I think there are plenty of sources in Sun which will give this sort of
stuff away.

Sure and there are plenty of people who have it and will send you a copy,
plus a few "archive" sites with SunOS 2 and 3, but they are either
outside the U.S. or will publicly deny that they exist.

Geoff.

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