[SunRescue] Sun4c support dropped in Solaris 8?

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Mar 13 12:58:58 CST 2000


On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 01:04:51PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On March 13, Jonathan [no, I don't write for /.] Katz wrote:
> > Trivia time? What would be the longest supported/produced architecture? 
> > Probably DEC's VAX or PDP-11 line? [ I don't know the answer ] Any other 
> > ideas? 
>   By far the DEC PDP-11 family.  If I recall correctly, the first
> model (the pdp11/20) first shipped in 1970, and the last (the pdp11/93
> and pdp11/94) were discontinued around 1997 or so.

Still being produced and supported, actually; DEC just handed everything
off to Mentec.

Bill

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