Old Sun, SGI, DEC?

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Old Sun, SGI, DEC?

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Is there any chance at all for implementations of old SGI workstations like the IRIS 1400, Next computer, old Sun workstations.. things like that? Seems mostly m68k based + weird interconnects to me but I may be wrong. Is anyone working on these? Would DEC VAX or even Alpha fit?
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Grabulosaure made some work-in-progress cores that can boot SunOS and NeXT. I wasn't able to get them working, but I didn't try super hard either, was mostly curious if I could get NeXT up and running. I'm sure someone here on the forum knows more. 😊
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I have run Solaris SUNOS and Linux on the respected Grabulosaure's Sparc core. I really hope that he will release them in source codes.
Also i am debugging PDP-11 core port for Mister.
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xolod79 wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:54 am Also i am debugging PDP-11 core port for Mister.
Just in case, let me mention that the BK0011M CPU is PDP-11 compatible.
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Would love to try some of that. Care to point me in the right direction?
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I wouldn't mind a symbolics LM-2 with a Space Cadet keyboard. A sparc machine would be interesting. I don't know where the limit would be but possibly easier to have these RISC machines replicated on FPGA than the complex CISC platform like the AO486 core.
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