Evans & Sutherland Y2K scrapyard heads-up - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Dec 1998

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.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York