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From: "Erik E. Fair" <fair-tuhs@netbsd.org>
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Henry,

I think you're going to be a whole lot happier with NetBSD or OpenBSD on 32-bit =
Sun SPARC hardware than trying to coax SunOS into a usable state for the =
modern, unfortunately rather hostile, Internet.

However, I think you're also going to want to make use of the cross-compilation =
tools provided, i.e., build software on [ugh] fast x86 or ARM hardware rather =
than wait for the old SPARCs to grind through it.

I hope you have cheap electic power service where you are - old Suns run warm =
and use a lot more electricity per cycle than modern processors.

The other way: emulation on modern power-efficient hardware, e.g., with qemu.

	Erik