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I used to run Netscape on a Sun workstation running Solaris, supposedly the pinnacle of late 90's Unix stability. It would segfault literally every half hour.
by icedchai 3y ago
I used to run Netscape on a Sun workstation running Solaris, supposedly the pinnacle of late 90's Unix stability. It would segfault literally every half hour.
- scarface_74 3y agoOf course my poor little Mac running System 7 didn’t stand a chance in all of its non memory protected, cooperative multitasking glory.
- baz00 3y agoSame. It'd hose the whole X stack sometimes. That's how I learned about STOP+A.
- sillywalk 3y agoDid you ever run Internet Explorer on Solaris? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
- icedchai 3y agoI did try it once! It was a pig. Possibly the system I was running it on (Ultra 10, 256 megs RAM) was too under powered.
- sillywalk 3y agoCool. Useless info: As an untrained 'intern' I managed to install Solaris on an Ultra 10 that the company I was contracted to help somehow never managed. Later I got to keep it. Ditto a Sun Enterprise 450.
- icedchai 3y agoNeat! I worked at a big Sun shop for a while, one of my first jobs out of college. We had Ultra 5 and 10's on the desktop, E450's and E3500's for servers, various huge fiber channel attached storage arrays, etc. I really loved Sun hardware. Too bad they were absorbed by Oracle.