From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Dec 9 18:45:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11535 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 18:45:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tecoma.mccc.edu (tecoma.mccc.edu [198.133.170.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11530 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 18:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mullaneb@mccc.edu) Received: from tecoma (tecoma [198.133.170.1]) by tecoma.mccc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA16293 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:45:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:45:09 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Mullaney X-Sender: mullaneb@tecoma To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Read this... In-Reply-To: <000201be23dc$5d49d690$6fe2f4cd@plato.naviant.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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