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This led me on a short Google trip to find the Sun Openboot font: Finding this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307356/what-is-the-identification-of-t
by bloopernova 6y ago
This led me on a short Google trip to find the Sun Openboot font:
Finding this:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307356/what-is-the-identification-of-the-font-being-used-for-the-solaris-console-in-tex https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307356/what-is-the-...
And this is the TTF of that font: https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/OSX/gallant12x22.ttf https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/OSX/gallant...
- cerberusss 6y agoAround 2000, I worked at Lucent, which was a Sun shop. But I can't remember this font. Was it only used on the console, i.e. in text mode?
- bloopernova 6y agoWhen you hit stop-a to emergency-halt the system, you'd see this console.
- mceachen 6y agoIf you booted single-user or didn't have a graphical login manager, you'd see this on the console on SunOS 4 and earlier (80s and 90s, pre-Solaris). I think by the time Solaris (or even open look) rolled around, it had a graphical user login.
- brirec 6y agoSolaris 2.6 and 7 didn’t have a graphical boot splash, so you’d see this while watching a SPARC box boot up.
- cellularmitosis 6y agoJust recently found an adafruit guide to building a solaris 2.6 setup using QEMU. The nostalgia! https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-and-solaris https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-an... edit: just remembered that you sadly don't get to see Sun Gallant Demi in all its glory, because it boots using the QEMU openfirmware.