Reply 1 of 5, by bjt
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No. And TBH either Solaris or Linux/SPARC are far better OS choices for that kind of machine 😀
Reply 2 of 5, by SquallStrife
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wrote:Does Windows 98 support UltraSPARC IIe+ ??
I saw an SunMicrosystems SunFire V120, dirt cheap at the moment, and am interested in experimenting with it, but i couldn't find does Windows 98 support this micro processor.
Windows 98 won't run on anything that isn't x86.
MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, and SPARC are examples of architectures that aren't x86.
You should still get it, because non-x86 computers are interesting and fun to play with.
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Reply 4 of 5, by DonutKing
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I disposed of a V120 last year at work. Replaced with an IBM Power720.
Theyre not like a PC at all, they are Unix servers. You dont hook up a keyboard mouse and monitor, you use a serial text based console (you can use a pc running putty for this) to configure it, then you cannect over the network using ssh or set it up as a database/app server.
The V120 is end of life and only suppirts solaris 9, while current version is 11 and has many new features like Zones and ZFS that arent in solaris 9.
The server might be interesting for you if you want to fiddle with it and learn about them, but its quite different tonmodern Solaris servers. Sparc also seems to be a dead end as Oracle bought Sun and havent made clear vwhat they are doing with the architecture.
There is no chance of getting any version of windows or DOS, or your SW1000XG running on this server.
If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble.
Reply 5 of 5, by obobskivich
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No, no Win98 on non-x86 machines. There are versions of NT that will run on non-x86 machines, but the software compatibility isn't 1:1 (so you're either relying on emulation or simply can't run the program - games will probably be worst affected by this). For any Sun machine, I'd probably steer you towards Solaris first (their hardware, their OS; kind of like Apple). There's also a Gentoo port for SPARC, which could give you a different set of software capabilities - for example you should be able to support ZFS.
This might be informative for you too:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19088-01/v120.srvr … 816-2090-10.pdf