On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Brian Buhrow wrote:

>	It makes me wonder how long NetBSD should try to continue
>supporting the Sun4c line.  Many of those machines are well over 10 years
>old now, and I wonder, realistically, how many are still in use by
>developers and testers.  I know of some in production use, but they're
>definitely on the retirement track.  How hard is it for developers to
>maintain backward compatibility effectively when there's no testing base to
>prove that it still works?

Squeak! My IPX is fine with 1.6B (though I did have an unexplained crash 
last week.) By the amount of traffic on the list about this specific
problem, I don't think there's any shortage of testers, and there are 
always plenty of machines on offer. But if there is, then I'm game to join 
in.

At the end of the day, the machines are fun to play with. I wouldn't have
a problem using my machine in a light production environment, but I just
enjoy playing with it and seeing just how much I can get out of the old
hardware. I may even use it as a development platform if my business
venture ever sees the light of day, based on the premise that anything
that runs OK on that will be fine on modern hardware.

Christian

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