[SunRescue] IPX or Classics

[Dave McGuire]

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, James Lockwood wrote:
>Sadly, this time it's for real.  A brief excerpt from Sunsolve (I don't
>think anyone will mind): 
>
>> the 2.7 release notes announce the EOL of sun4c. 
>> sun4c directory should be removed asap so developers don't need to waste
>> time on updating files in uts/sun4c and sanity testing on sun4c
>
>Gypsy/Voyager is also gone.

  So...how long until folks with source code release "underground" 4c support
kits for Solaris...or just move to NetBSD, OpenBSD, or Linux. ;)

  When will Sun buy a clue?  There are THOUSANDS of 4c machines running all
over the place.  People aren't going to chuck them and buy Ultras just because
Sun wants them to.  They have to have a REAL reason...and so far, Sun hasn't
given them one.  Except, of course, by unsupporting them with their OS, but
there are so many alternative OSs around, all of which run SunOS/Solaris
binaries...so why bother?

  Ahh, suits.

             -Dave McGuire