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Article #2552Re: Sun stops Cobalt ?
From: Craig Ian Dewick
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:23
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:23
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"Emma" <ckidon-pas2spam@yahoo.com> writes: >Hello, >I've heard that Sun is stoping the support of Cobalt at the end of 2003... >Is this true ? Quite possibly. Especially for the products Cobalt designed and produced before Sun bought the company in 2000 and moved the product line from using MIPS CPU's (sensible choice) to x86's (bad choice). I wouldn't expect Sun to drop the more recent 'Cobalt' badged products just yet, but Raq 1/2 and Qube 1/2 product are the ones which'll definitely go EOSL. That's ok though since there is plenty of alternative OS support available for those machines. Take a look at NetBSD for example. Regards, Craig. -- Craig Dewick ----- Founder and maintainer of the SunShack at www.sunshack.org APANA Sydney Regional Co-Ordinator -- check www.sydney.apana.org.au for info. Operator of Jedi ---- an APANA Sydney PoP --- www.jedi.apana.org.au for info. Lover of SpamAssassin - high quality open-source spam killing for the masses!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4671,20b6a90e395053f9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4671,public X-Google-Thread: 10d053,c77f32cb71442eaa,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d053,public X-Google-Thread: 11035d,c77f32cb71442eaa,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11035d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-08 04:30:10 PST From: Craig Ian Dewick <craig@round.and.round.upside.down.living.my.life.underneath.the.ground> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,aus.computers.sun,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Sun stops Cobalt ? Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:23:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Core Matrix Foundation inc. ORBnet Lines: 23 Message-ID: <c53cng$lc5$1@yoda.apana.org.au> References: <3fcc7969$0$2366$626a54ce@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: circlet.apana.org.au X-Trace: yoda.apana.org.au 1081423408 21893 203.14.152.53 (8 Apr 2004 11:23:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@yoda.apana.org.au NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:23:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.melb.apana.org.au!news.yoda.apana.org.au!craig