Also sprach Rik van Riel:
} On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Bill Wendling wrote:
}
} > So, I'm simply saying that, while looking into my crystal ball,
}
} If computing history has taught us anything, it is that you cannot
} look into a crystal ball and tell what the future is going to be
} like.
}
} Be prepared.
}
I forgot the <sarcasm> XML tags for that above sentence...
} > There are people offering support for [234]86s?
}
} The last 286s running SCO Xenix have been phased out
} before Y2K -- yes, those machines had been running for
} 8 or more years, processing business-critical data and
} vigorously shaking off the dust their contemporaries
} had been gathering for years...
}
} 386s and 486s are still being used and supported,
} the 386s are mostly found in embedded systems and
} the 486s in slighly older but still fully functional
} servers...
}
} (and yes, they are actively being supported)
}
I stand corrected on this and the PDP-10 thing. If people are still using
these machines, wee fun!
Bill
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