der Mouse said:

>As long as there are people using it, someone willing to be portmaster,
>etc, I daresay.  It still supports VAXen, and some of those are even
>older.  Heck, it does not only sun3 but sun2!  If you want software
>that EOLs support for hardware before there's no more such hardware
>left, you know where to find it.

I have a Sun 3/50 that was built in 1988 running:

NetBSD slug 1.5ZC NetBSD 1.5ZC (SLUG) #0: Fri Mar 29 10:42:00 MST 2002     rmk@slug:/usr/src/sys/arch/sun3/compile/SLUG sun3


>Plenty, to judge by the howls on the list about how slow they've gotten
>with this cache change.  If nobody still used them, the _problem_
>wouldn't've been noticed, even, much less the other problem caused by
>the fix.

Yup. 

I think it is just a bug that needs to be overcome.
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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com