Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:45:09 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Mullaney <mullaneb@mccc.edu> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Read this... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.04.9812092109120.14729-100000@tecoma> In-Reply-To: <000201be23dc$5d49d690$6fe2f4cd@plato.naviant.com>
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On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Lyndon Griffin wrote: > 1) Price/total cost of ownership Every new Sparc machine I've seen comes with a solaris right-to-use license. And Solaris is free (well, shipping costs something) (Look at Suns free solaris program) > 3) people like me that get a Sparc for free, excepting that it's ten years > old and you can't get a current version of Solaris to run on it (I'll bet Solaris 2.7 Runs on sun-4c, sun-4d, sun-4m, sun-4u, and sun-4u1 So it will run on hardware that is about 8 years old How long are they supposed to support legacy hardware in current OS releases, in your view? Brian (It would be nice to get a slightly more modern OS for my 2/120, but I won't be bugging Sun about HW support any time soon) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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