[rescue] Announcement from Sun

[William Enestvedt]

Kevin wrote:
>
> Hopefully this will allow faster support for hardware on *bsd.
>
> Maybe we can talk them into opening earlier versions of Solaris
> under the same licence to get some of the old/ancient hardware
> supported :)
>
   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