John Nemeth (jnemeth@cue.bc.ca) wrote:
: On Feb 1,  7:04am, der Mouse wrote:
: } 
: } Aren't "old Ultrix" little-endian, just like the 80x86?
: 
:      Yes.  I discovered this when the university I was at first got a
: Sun and talk wouldn't work between the brand new Sun 3/280, and the
: old VAX 11/780, running 4.3BSD.  Here it is almost ten years later and
: Sun's talk still doesn't work.

Yes. They never included the new talk protocol in sunos4.1.x, and they
never did even int 5.x (aka Solaris 2.x). To make things worse, last I
heard it was still impossible to compile the ntalk/ntalkd under Solaris
2.x. 

Regards,
	Ignatios Souvatzis