[SunRescue] SparcServer 670/MP O.S. Options / VME Support?

Kurt Mosiejczuk rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Nov 22 12:24:32 CST 2000


On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Mike Nicewonger wrote:

> VME support indeed died in 2.5.1, however Sun has killed the 4c (IPC, IPX,
> SS2 etc) support in Sol. 8. I heard they were going to kill 4m (SS10, LX,
> SS5, etc) and 4d (SS1000, SC2000) in the next major release of Solaris.

Release notes for Solaris 8 say sun4d (SS1000 and 2000) are EOL'd.  It does
NOT mention that for sun4m (SS10, SS5, LX, etc.) and Sun has always been good 
about giving at least one release notice.  So I doubt the sun4m will go away
for Solaris 9

--Kurt




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