[geeks] Can someone sell me a cheap ultra sparc :-)

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Sat, 31 May 2003, Scott Howard wrote:

> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:17:07AM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> > > Careful how cheap you go, rumor is the u1 wont be supported in the next
> > > version of solaris..

> > I'd check the source of that rumor.  Sun has always declared end-of-support
> > BEFORE unsupporting platforms.

> >From http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-5030/6mb6vudd7?a=view :
[webpage quotes deleted]

> sun4m is the only non-Ultra hardware supported in Solaris 9, so take that
> out and all you've got left is sun4u.

Well, I stand corrected.  I even checked docs.sun.com and missed it.

Although it is interesting to see that the stuff about the US1 and US2
32-bit kernels is only in the 4/02 release in later.  It's not in the
original Solaris 9 release.

--Kurt