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   Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:43:53 JST Alexander Bochmann

   Back to OpenStep for Solaris, it seems there was a beta of an WorkShop OpenStep development environment at some point, but I've certainly never seen a download of that one anywhere - https://web.archive.org/web/20050427180415/http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-2110/6i63kq4s7?a=view

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:43:16 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     So since someone mentioned this abomination further up in the thread: Here's a screenshot of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and the accompanying Outlook Express running on Solaris 2.5.1, with the desktop provided by Solaris Openstep instead of OpenWindows.

     #retrocomputing #solaris

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:43:19 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     Spent the evening with:

     Rearranging RAM modules because the SS10 would only blink the capslock LED after powering on ... until I remembered I had done an setenv diag-switch? true to do a full RAM test, and then it takes bloody ages for the screen to come up, and I was too impatient...

     Fighting the RasterFlex card after reseating it into a different SBus slot - until I read the FAQ, which said that the drivers need to be uninstalled and reinstalled after a reboot -- -r so the internals get rearranged appropriately.

     Now back to where I was this afternoon (except the RasterFlex does not seem all to spiffy in TrueColor mode after all, and also the screen blanks occasionally for some reason)...

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: repeated this.
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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:43:22 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     Weeeellll, according to the old hardware FAQ, 32MB SIMMs supposedly don't even work on an SS10 (SS20 only). Great. Now the question is - why didn't I run into problems up to now?

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:43:25 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     ...and the system has 1 * 32MB memory, and 3 * 16MB, but only reports a total 64MB?

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:43:28 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     Huh. I was lazy and put the card into the one SBus slot that didn't have a cover anyway (Slot 0) - which seems to run only at 20MHz in the SS10, whereas all the others are 40MHz...

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:43:33 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     According to the dmesg, I have:

     VITec,RasterFLEX-320 at sbus0: SBus slot 0 0x0 SBus level 5 sparc ipl 9
     VITec,RasterFLEX-320 is /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/VITec,RasterFLEX-32@0,0

     Sourced RasterFlex drivers from fido.aalin.co.uk/vault/hw/system/sun/3rdparty/rasterflex/

     My Xsun configuration for Openstep is now broken though...

     Maybe I should take the opportunity to restart from scratch and set the system up with Solaris 2.6 instead?

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:43:38 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     The RasterFlex has a custom framebuffer logo.

     #retrocomputing #SunOS

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:43:43 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     Apparently one of the SBus graphics cards in my stash is a Vitec RasterFlex32, which supposedly is one of the better frame buffers of that time?

     The other is an older 1 MB TGX.

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     Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:43:49 JST Alexander Bochmann

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     Hrm, so according to fbinfo I have a 1MB TGX in this system, but Xsun claims it can only do depth 8 nevertheless...

     So I tried switching to GrayScale mode, and while Xsun then starts in grayscale, the Openstep desktop will still be in colour, and there's flickering when touching window titles or the background?