Evans & Sutherland Y2K scrapyard heads-up

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <A_Finney_at_wfi-inc.com>
Date: Tue Dec 22 01:04:02 1998

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> On Dec 21, 21:17, Aaron Christopher Finney wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Evans & Sutherland Y2K scrapyard heads-up
> > On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >
> > > My guess would be any Sun that only runs SunOS isn't, and won't be Y2k.
> To
> > > the best of my knowledge they've no intention of making SunOS Y2k as
> they
> > > want you running Solaris.
> >
> > I'll have to check the site again...we don't run any SunOS machines, so I
> > didn't pay too much attention. But I was under the impression that any
> Y2K
> > problem with the Sun3's was about the NVRAM,
>
> No, while they do have a problem with the NVRAM/clock chip, that's far from
> the only issue with SunOS.
>
> > and that there are patches
> > available for some of the 4/xxx series and the Sparcs that are still
> > running the most current SunOS.
>
> Which is not usable on a Sun3. "Current SunOS" is Solaris 2.6.

Indeed. SunOS 4.1.x is what I was referring to. I generally assume that
someone who mentions "SunOS" is referring to versions previous to 5.0 and
"Solaris" refers to versions 5.0 and later, although I realise that
Solaris is officially SunOS.
Received on Tue Dec 22 1998 - 01:04:02 GMT