[rescue] Announcement from Sun

[erie]

oh, oh, pick me....

erie

William Enestvedt wrote:

>Kevin wrote:
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>>Hopefully this will allow faster support for hardware on *bsd.
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>>Maybe we can talk them into opening earlier versions of Solaris
>>under the same licence to get some of the old/ancient hardware
>>supported :)
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>   Probably wishful thinking, unfortunately: one of the things I've seen
>memtioned over and over is that they had to re-write a lot of code that
>was patent-encumbered, and I can't seem them doing that same work for,
>you know, and old codebase. :7)
>   Too bad, though, as I agree that having old stuff running would be
>good. (For example, I wish I could run a BSD or Linux on my PowerBook
>1400, but I can't so I'm going to find someone to give it to.)
>-wde
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>Will Enestvedt
>UNIX System Administrator
>Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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