[rescue] Wanted: Old Sun Hardware

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 06:29:17 CDT 2009


On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:46:20AM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> I think 'Old' has gone through several definitions - first anything
>> 680x0-based, then anything Sun4(all flavors) or earlier, then anytimg
>> that wouldn't run 64-bit Solaris. Soon (I fear) it will mean anything
>> not x64-based.
>
> To be picky, everything sun4(all flavors) isn't old since sun4u was
> 64-bit capable, and sun4v and sun4u are both still in production.
>
> I don't think that old will mean anything not x64-based anytime soon,
> since the T1s and T2s are still very, very nice.

My Sun4(anything) really meant Sun4c and Sun4m.

Lionel



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