Your own SPARCStation 5 workstation, with QEmu and Solaris, PART 1 - Setting up the emulator
Overview Many years ago UI and UX were still in their diapers. Disk storage was frugal and expensive. A 100MB harddisk was considered huge, and it was as expensive as the whole rest of the computer system. The only systems that had developers who were exploring the corners of UI and UX were the Amiga and the Atari ST, and those systems were near to being obsolete. Let alone being considered for serious work. PCs had Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, which were graphical user interfaces, but drab as a mud fence. Around this time, CD-ROM entered the scene. And all of a sudden, there it was: cheap storage, removable, with the stellar size of 650MB and even more! Realistic graphics, photos, video, it became available to developers almost overnight! And everyone wanted a piece of it! Philips and Sony (who invented the CD) decided that if there is such an amount of storage, there should also be something that can make use of it. And the CD-i console was born. A great system, with great graphical po