[SunHELP] Latest machines that still run SunOS 4.1.4?

[Dale Ghent]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, David L Kindred (Dave) wrote:

| Our collection of IPX and LX machines are really starting to show their
| age, and are causing more help desk calls than I really want.  I'm
| wondering if it would make sense to replace a bunch of them with a
| couple of whatever the latest, greatest, biggest, fastest box is that
| still runs SunOS 4.1.4?

SunOS 4.1.4 supports up to the sun4d archeteacture, and all sun4m type
servers.

The biggest box that 4.1.4 will thus support is a SS1000/2000 or a
SparcStation 20 with 4 hypersparcs.

| The requirement is for program execution, remote login, maybe remote X
| displays, but not for user desktop (i.e. all headless).  The only disk I
| need is for OS, Apps, and Swap.  User data is all on existing NFS servers.

What is preventing you from running Solaris 2.x? Get a dual processor
Ultra 2 (which are quite cheap now) and load it up with Solaris 8, which
still retains SunOS 4.1.4 binary compatability.

/dale