[SunRescue] Sun4c support dropped in Solaris 8?

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 3:12 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Sun4c support dropped in Solaris 8?
> 
> 
> On March 14, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > > > Hmm, that kinda scary...  anybody put together specs on 
> > > these olden boxes?
> > > > i didn't see anything on pdp11.org, but i didn't look 
> much.  Similar
> > > > machines though, right?
> > > 
> > > Similar, yes. A successor, rather.
> > 
> > Hmm, somehow I thought that that machine was in production 
> the same time as
> > the later PDP11s...  not that it matters, since I wasn't 
> old enough to read
> > when those things were new.  :)
> 
>   The VAX *architecture* was a successor to the PDP11 architecture.
> Implementations of that architecture overlapped for [what is now] most
> of their lifetimes.
> 
>   They share architectural roots and philosophies, but they're still
> quite a bit different.  Both truly wonderful (and historically
> important) architectures in my opinion, and very much worthy of
> study.
> 
>   And the later, more modern VAXen are still quite viable as a
> computing platform.

Would that be like a 4000-400?
	Greg