Hello gallaxial,

g> I got a Sun Computer
> I try to install windows 7 , But the installation ask For Drivers
> My Question is Where to get Drivers for Win 7 et the Sun Tower ?

Which Sun is it? Windows 7 is an odd choice for those.

-Andy Ball

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g> I got a Sun Computer
> I try to install windows 7 , But the installation ask For Drivers
> My Question is Where to get Drivers for Win 7 et the Sun Tower ?

Which Sun is it? Windows 7 is an odd choice for those.

Yeah, I would usually expect Solaris or some other *nix variant to be
installed on those. I am surprised Windows 7 will even attempt to install
on one.

Mike

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Andy Ball wrote to gallaxial <=-

g> I got a Sun Computer
> I try to install windows 7 , But the installation ask For Drivers
> My Question is Where to get Drivers for Win 7 et the Sun Tower ?

Which Sun is it? Windows 7 is an odd choice for those.

My guess is an Ultra 5 or Ultra 10 - relatively new, relatively common, and tower form factor. Nice systems, but I concur - not a likely host for
Windows 7.

Now, I'd love to get an old Sparcstation LX with a Weitek PowerUp chip,
been wanting to go "classic" UNIX for a while.



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Hello Kurt,

g> I got a Sun Computer I try to install windows 7 , But the
> installation ask For Drivers My Question is Where to get Drivers
> for Win 7 et the Sun Tower?

Which Sun is it? Windows 7 is an odd choice for those.

KW> My guess is an Ultra 5 or Ultra 10 - relatively new, relatively
> common, and tower form factor. Nice systems, but I concur - not
> a likely host for Windows 7.

The original poster said that the installer was asking for
drivers. I'm not aware of an UltraSPARC port of Windows so I wouldn't expect install media to boot, let alone get far enough to ask for drivers. Perhaps it's something like an Ultra 20 or 40 though.

KW> Now, I'd love to get an old Sparcstation LX with a Weitek Power
> -Up chip, been wanting to go "classic" UNIX for a while.

My 32-bit SPARCstations are long-since recycled. A lunchbox SPARC
wouldn't take up much space but the cooling wasn't great on them. I have a soft spot for the SLC and ELC but either of those would be hard for me to justify today.

-Andy Ball

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Andy Ball wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

My 32-bit SPARCstations are long-since recycled. A lunchbox SPARC wouldn't take up much space but the cooling wasn't great on them. I
have a soft spot for the SLC and ELC but either of those would be hard
for me to justify today.

I'd heard that about Lunchbox SPARCs, but still loved the LX. I had a Sparc
2 in a Pizza box case, with the big 19" CRT and a type 5 keyboard. That was
my first desktop Sparc, and I loved it...



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Re: Re: Sun Computer
By: Kurt Weiske to Andy Ball on Sat Mar 09 2019 06:08 pm

I'd heard that about Lunchbox SPARCs, but still loved the LX. I had a Sparc 2 in a Pizza box case, with the big 19" CRT and a type 5 keyboard. That was

I hear "pizza box case" and my mind immediately jumps to the NeXT computer that Steve Jobs created. They were expensive, and way ahead of their time, but they were awesome. I remember using it and it was only greyscale graphics at the time (but the monitor was huge!) around 1992/1993.


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On Sun 16-Jun-2019 7:00 , Blake Patterson@1:135/369.0 said to Kurt Weiske:

In college we had some i386-based Solaris machines. Towers. They would run DOS/Windows in a window on the Solaris desktop -- but the machines were dogs,
and I feel pretty certain they wouldn't boot straight into DOS or Windows, lacking PC BIOS. I know of no Sun machine that will natively boot DOS or Windows, and almost all of them are SPARC-based, an architecture that
never
received a Windows port.

I am looking for a emulator that will run on Windows 10 and emulate the HP 3000. Based back in 1984.


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