[geeks] Solaris 9 changes

[Mike Hebel]

>
> As a rule they won't drop support for a product until after the
> hardware itself has passed EOSL (End of Support Life). In the case of
> sun4m this didn't happen until September 2003 (SS5 was last shipped
> 9/98, and supported for 5 years after that).
> For UltraSPARC I it's a little more tricky. The Ultra-1 is long gone
> (EOSL was July 2003), however there are still E3000's and Ultra 2's out
> there that are not yet EOSL (and will not be at the time Sol10 ships)
> which have US-1's in them - although they are few and far between.
>
> At the end of the day I think they just decided that it was easier to
> drop support for these few chips which haven't in themselves been sold
> for many years and thus be able to drop all 32 bit (on SPARC) kernel
> support.

I'm confused by this.  The U1s run 64-bit - my Sol 7, yes I'm behind and I
know it, is running in that mode.
Or am I missing something blindingly obvious?

Mike Hebel
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