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At 18:46 Tue 15 Nov 2005, J.D. Bronson wrote:
 
> I still run 1 solaris machine and thats a sparc running 9.0 ...as 
> soon as the machine dies or the OS is no longer supported, the 
> machine will find a nice resting spot in some city dump (or recycler)
> 

Not to start a holy war or anything, but if you're really
feeling motivated, I believe you can run netbsd or one of several
flavors of linux on that sparc.  Not sure about FreeBSD.

Regards,

-- 
Lee Capps
Technology Specialist
CTE Resource Center