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Xref: sserve comp.unix.solaris:708 comp.unix.bsd:8730 Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!earle 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 Lines: 24 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)