[SunRescue] Sun4c support dropped in Solaris 8?

[James Lockwood]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On March 13, Jonathan [no, I don't write for /.] Katz wrote:
> > Trivia time? What would be the longest supported/produced architecture? 
> > Probably DEC's VAX or PDP-11 line? [ I don't know the answer ] Any other 
> > ideas? 
> 
>   By far the DEC PDP-11 family.  If I recall correctly, the first
> model (the pdp11/20) first shipped in 1970, and the last (the pdp11/93
> and pdp11/94) were discontinued around 1997 or so.

It depends on if architectural supersets count (and if all of x86 can be
lumped into a single "architecture" then they certainly should).  S/360
was introduced in 1964, and I can still take an assembler routine from
that era and run it on a brand new /390 box.  DOS/360 porting would be
tough, but going from OS/MVT to OpenMVS is not too bad for smaller apps.

Granted, OS and I/O support is drastically different, but that was true of
the PDP-11 as well.

The PDP-8 may also be in the running.

-James