With help from dsp on the SWLUG IRC channel I managed to reset the password on the Sparc-box (the hostname is sparky, so I’ll call it that from now on…).
I had to edit the file /etc/master.passwd – this wasn’t as easy as I thought though because neither vi or nano wanted to play ball over [...]
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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 [...]
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