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From: earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed)
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.x on Sun386i?
Message-ID: <1992Dec6.091716.19714@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Followup-To: comp.unix.solaris
Summary: Nope
Organization: Gainfully unemployed
References: <1992Dec3.230704.10109@rta.oz.au>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 09:17:16 GMT
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In article <1992Dec3.230704.10109@rta.oz.au> davidv@rta.oz.au (David Vohradsky) writes:
>If SUN [sic] are releasing Solaris on Intel hardware, does
>this mean that it will be available for Sun386i's?

No, it will not be available for the Sun386i architecture.

[Also, if I can put on my "Not Guy Harris, nor even a pale imitation" hat, (-:]
[please do not call it "SUN" - it is "Sun".  It hasn't been an acronym for, oh]
[10 years or so ... ]

>So that people that got ripped off with these things that were
>obsolete as soon as we bought them will be able to extend their life?

If you want to "extend their life", they make excellent floor heaters ... (-:

If you want to become a Hero to a small portion of the civilized world, you
could always attempt to port 386BSD to it.  Good luck, though; the Sun386i
uses standard Sun bits like the framebuffer and the bus is an AT bus, so any
port won't be very easy ... (-:

--
	- Greg Earle
	  Itinerant Sun Consultant
	  earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV				(Guest)