[rescue] SunOS 5.5.1 inaccessible

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 16 19:58:55 CST 2003


--- Michael Schiller <schiller at agrijag.com> wrote:

> I agree with you on this with one exception. Just how many 'Big 
> Accounts' as you call them are going to be using Sparc-20's? Sun
> should  have made it free for ALL sun4m systems, and only
> uniprocessor sun4u systems IMHO. Although personally I think dual
> processor would have been a better limitation all around.

Well, from their point of view, dual processor Ultra boxes are still
quite expensive, so it probably seemed unlikely that "regular folks"
would use such a box at home...

Sun is getting thousands for U60s, and they have probably forgotten
about SS/10, SS/20 and SS/1000 & ss/2000...


=====
Lionel

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