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Astr0baby's not so random thoughts _____ rand() % 100; is a personal blog at astr0baby.wordpress.com about systems, hardware and history. Since 2017, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Running Solaris 2.6 (sparc) with QEMU-system-sparc in Linux x86_64”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for how-to guides on running retro Unix and VMS systems in emulators, such as Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and OpenVMS Alpha under QEMU, plus Tru64 Unix history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Running Solaris 2.6 (sparc) with QEMU-system-sparc in Linux x86_643 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-24
- Running AIX 5.1 on QEMU-system-PPC2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-03
- Unix OS Archaeology Tru64 Unix2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-21
What Hacker News says?
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/running-solaris-2... Or do you mean a copy of the ISO? For that I'd try archive.org or winworldpc
Comment linking /2018/09/22/running-solaris-2-6-sparc-on-qemu-system-sparc-in-linux-x86_64-mint-19/
on “QEMU v4.0.0 released”Submitted Unix OS Archaeology Tru64 Unix as a story · 53 points
HN discussionHere's a pretty good tutorial. https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/running-solaris-2... I used a Solaris 7 .iso from archive.org. https://archive.org/details/solaris_7_1199_sparc
Comment linking /2018/09/22/running-solaris-2-6-sparc-on-qemu-system-sparc-in-linux-x86_64-mint-19/
on “QEMU v4.0.0 released”Submitted Running AIX 5.1 on QEMU-system-PPC as a story · 3 points
HN discussionan Alpha Emulator for Linux x86-64 is out there. This is a good guide: https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/installing-openvm...
Comment linking /2017/03/30/installing-openvms-v8-4-2-on-alphavm-pt-1/
on “A Raspberry Pi VAX Cluster (2012)”Submitted Running Solaris 2.6 (sparc) with QEMU-system-sparc in Linux x86_64 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPresumably AIX 1.3 for PS/2? Unlike some other retro UNIX of that vintage it actually virtualizes easily https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/running-aix-1-3-i...
Comment linking /2018/09/14/running-aix-1-3-inside-virtual-box-5-2-16/
on “An AlphaStation's SROM”Submitted CDE (Common Desktop Environment) on NetBSD Ebvarm Pinebook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeems that 32-bit mode emulation mode of PA-RISC is available, and HP-UX 9 to 11 runs on it: * https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Qemu * https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/running-hp-ux-11-... There doesn't seem to be enough interest to really make more capabilities a priority beyond hobby-level interest: * https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/HPPA
Comment linking /2019/04/28/running-hp-ux-11-11-on-qemu-system-hppa/
on “AIX Running on Apple's M1”Submitted Running Ultrix 4.5 (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOriginal Submission with Music Video in case link gets switched: https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/unix-os-archaeolo...
Comment linking /2017/02/14/unix-os-archaeology-soviet-unix-clone-demos-pt-2/
on “Unix OS Archaeology Tru64 Unix”Submitted Build your own AIX workstation with QEMU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionseems this is the article you really wanted to link to... https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/unix-os-archaeolo...
Comment linking /2017/02/20/unix-os-archaeology-tru64-unix-part-2/
on “Unix OS Archaeology Tru64 Unix”Submitted Running AIX 5.1 on QEMU-system-PPC as a story · 1 points
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