Today I am playing with my Sparc-box. It is a Sun Ultra 5. It has a 64-bit 333MHz SPARC chip.
It’s fairly quick considering it’s age, which is partly down to the Sparc processor having a reduced instruction set like ARM chips were on the Archimedes (My old 8MHz ARM computer was faster than a 25MHz 386 of the time… not there was anything I did that needed any power in those days!).
So far I’ve managed to use minicom to connect to the computer, which also has an ethernet port available but unfortunately I am having a little bit of trouble remembering the password for both the normal and root users….
With the help of bgeek on the SWLUG IRC channel I needed to write a short file for /etc/minirc.dfl which looks like this:
bash-3.2# cat /etc/minirc.dfl
pr port /dev/ttyS0
pu baudrate 9600
pu minit
pu mreset
pu rtscts No
more to come later….
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