[SunRescue] IPX or Classics

[James Lockwood]

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, James Lockwood wrote:
> >  Sun
> >has also stated that the support for the old sun4c machines will probably
> >be going away in the next release of Solaris, so if you want this machine
> >around to have a cheap Solaris box to play with I'd recommend the classic.
> 
>   ...but Sun has been saying that since, what, 2.4? ;)

Actually, Sun said it as of 2.5.1 (there were a heck of a lot of sun4c's
still running in the 2.4 era).

Sadly, this time it's for real.  A brief excerpt from Sunsolve (I don't
think anyone will mind): 

> the 2.7 release notes announce the EOL of sun4c. 
> sun4c directory should be removed asap so developers don't need to waste
> time on updating files in uts/sun4c and sanity testing on sun4c

Gypsy/Voyager is also gone.

-James