On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Darren Reed wrote:

> In some email I received from Brian Hechinger, sie wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:16:23PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> > > der Mouse said:
> > >
> > > >NetBSD supports a much wider range of machines (at least assuming that
> > > >what I've heard, that Solaris has dropped support for sun4 and sun4c,
> > > >is true).
> > >
> > > Yup. Solaris 8 dropped Sun4 and Sun4c. Solaris 9 drops Sun4m.
> >
> > not true.  sun4m was not in the 9 Beta, but seems to be in the 9 Final.
>
> That's also false.
>
> I've booted Solaris9-BETA CD-ROMS on a SPARCStation20-712 and even
> installed Solaris9-BETA on it and had it operational (in.iked worked
> with racoon -:).

Just to clear this up, I believe Solaris 9 supports all sun4m
systems *except* VME based systems and the voyager. So you can
still run Solaris 9 on your beloved Classic. ;)

However, it does appear the sun4d support has gone missing.

jonathan