[SunRescue] Sun4c support dropped in Solaris 8?

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjrn Ramqvist [mailto:brt at osk.sema.se]
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 11:12 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Sun4c support dropped in Solaris 8?
> 
> 
> Jonathan [no, I don't write for /.] Katz wrote:
> > 
> > 10 years of single OS support isn't bad at all.... it 
> really bodes well
> > for the longevity of the hardware as well as the superiority of the
> > architecture design. Good marketing helps, too.
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Oh yes. You can still run your favourite VAX 11/780 -76 on OpenVMS/VAX
> 7.2. Although, there could be some memory considerations, which would
> limit the overall usefullness of such a combination. :-)
> (Oh, did someone say 'speed'?)
> 
> VAX 11/780 -76'.. sounds almost like a car. :-)

Hmm, that kinda scary...  anybody put together specs on these olden boxes?
i didn't see anything on pdp11.org, but i didn't look much.  Similar
machines though, right?
	Greg