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   Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 01:57:04 JST Alexander Bochmann

   Peak Solaris: SparcStation 10 running Solaris 5.5.1, with Solaris OPENSTEP as window manager, and Wabi (Windows 3.1 environment) plus Macintosh Application Environment as applications.

   Unfortunately the colours in Wabi and MAE are off, as I only have a cgsix...

   #retrocomputing #solaris

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     Karl Baron (kalleboo@bitbang.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 01:58:57 JST Karl Baron

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     • Shyra 🔜 Furality Umbra

     @galaxis @shyra The only cursed thing you’re missing is the native version of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Solaris

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:44:33 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     There was also a post on one of the Sun blogs with a little bit of history of OpenStep for Solaris, which is on the Archive too, at https://web.archive.org/web/20060215231443/http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/richb?entry=openstep_history

     Some of the archived comments talk about the Lighthouse apps...

     For a long time I thought that the Lighthouse Office Suite would be unobtainium forever, but it seems someone uploaded them to nextcomputers.org in 2016, and I missed it? (www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Lighthouse_Design/)

     Not sure if any of those run on non-m68k hardware though (the FrameMaker in that directory seems to be NeXT/Intel/HPPA according to the package name - not quad-fat for OPENSTEP/Sparc).

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:44:35 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     Hrm, I completely forgot about LuBu OpenMagic, which was a redistribution of the OpenStep 1.1 files with some changes and alleged optimizations, and I seem to remember it should work on newer Solaris versions.

     Someone uploaded that to github at some point (https://github.com/itomato/lubu), and archive.org also has the original .tar file.

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:44:37 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     • Darren Moffat

     @darrenmoffat @kalleboo (...though I see now that there was also a IE 4.01 release that was compatible with Solaris 2.5 and up. Might try that one at some point.)

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:44:39 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     • Karl Baron
     • Darren Moffat

     @darrenmoffat @kalleboo Yeah, might be in the wrong age for that one, according to the IE5 for UNIX release notes: "Internet Explorer is not supported on Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier."

     I've seen mentioned that it's kind of possible to hack up OpenStep for Solaris to run on 2.6, but it's brittle even on the version it was released for...

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     Darren Moffat (darrenmoffat@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:44:41 JST Darren Moffat

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     • Shyra 🔜 Furality Umbra

     @kalleboo @galaxis @shyra the Solaris port of Internet Explorer was better integrated with CDE than Netscape was - it at least adapted to the CDE “theme” changes.