Is this newsgroup dying?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

The most recent post is dated July 24 or about three weeks ago?

[John D Groenveld]

Post by Richard B. Gilbert
The most recent post is dated July 24 or about three weeks ago?

IIRC this group by convention if not by charter focuses on
SunOS 4.1.4 (Solaris 1.1.2) and previous while
comp.unix.solaris focuses on Solaris 2.0 (Sun 5.0) and later.

But do you have a question?
John
***@acm.org

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Post by John D Groenveld

Post by Richard B. Gilbert
The most recent post is dated July 24 or about three weeks ago?

IIRC this group by convention if not by charter focuses on
SunOS 4.1.4 (Solaris 1.1.2) and previous while
comp.unix.solaris focuses on Solaris 2.0 (Sun 5.0) and later.
But do you have a question?

Sorry, but no! I think I now have a better understanding of the reason
for low traffic volume here.

[Thad Floryan]

Post by Richard B. Gilbert

Post by Richard B. Gilbert
The most recent post is dated July 24 or about three weeks ago?

IIRC this group by convention if not by charter focuses on SunOS 4.1.4
(Solaris 1.1.2) and previous while
comp.unix.solaris focuses on Solaris 2.0 (Sun 5.0) and later.
But do you have a question?

Sorry, but no! I think I now have a better understanding of the reason
for low traffic volume here.

Hmmm, we can fix that. I still have several Sun-3/60 I "should" be
able to power up and get the ball rolling again.

My IPX systems (one with SunOS 4.1.4) worked the last time I powered
them up earlier this century.

:-)

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Post by Thad Floryan

Post by Richard B. Gilbert

Post by Richard B. Gilbert
The most recent post is dated July 24 or about three weeks ago?

IIRC this group by convention if not by charter focuses on SunOS 4.1.4
(Solaris 1.1.2) and previous while
comp.unix.solaris focuses on Solaris 2.0 (Sun 5.0) and later.
But do you have a question?

Sorry, but no! I think I now have a better understanding of the reason
for low traffic volume here.

Hmmm, we can fix that. I still have several Sun-3/60 I "should" be
able to power up and get the ball rolling again.
My IPX systems (one with SunOS 4.1.4) worked the last time I powered
them up earlier this century.
:-)

Solaris 8 is ancient enough for me! My only acquaintance with earlier
versions was chucking the machines that ran them into the dumpster. I
think they were replaced with some sort of Compaq "Slim Line". Solaris
8 was current at the time (ca. 2002-2004) and that's what we installed.
These machines could dual boot Solaris(X86) and Windows and we installed
both O/Ss.

[Michael Vilain]

Post by Richard B. Gilbert

Post by Thad Floryan

Post by Richard B. Gilbert

Post by Richard B. Gilbert
The most recent post is dated July 24 or about three weeks ago?

IIRC this group by convention if not by charter focuses on SunOS 4.1.4
(Solaris 1.1.2) and previous while
comp.unix.solaris focuses on Solaris 2.0 (Sun 5.0) and later.
But do you have a question?

Sorry, but no! I think I now have a better understanding of the reason
for low traffic volume here.

Hmmm, we can fix that. I still have several Sun-3/60 I "should" be
able to power up and get the ball rolling again.
My IPX systems (one with SunOS 4.1.4) worked the last time I powered
them up earlier this century.
:-)

Solaris 8 is ancient enough for me! My only acquaintance with earlier
versions was chucking the machines that ran them into the dumpster. I
think they were replaced with some sort of Compaq "Slim Line". Solaris
8 was current at the time (ca. 2002-2004) and that's what we installed.
These machines could dual boot Solaris(X86) and Windows and we installed
both O/Ss.

I still have the memory card extraction tools used to pull SIMM cards
easily in Sparc 2s.

[Charles Lindsey]

Post by John D Groenveld
IIRC this group by convention if not by charter focuses on
SunOS 4.1.4 (Solaris 1.1.2) and previous while
comp.unix.solaris focuses on Solaris 2.0 (Sun 5.0) and later.

Eh? FIrst time I have ever heard that suggested.

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Post by Charles Lindsey

Post by John D Groenveld
IIRC this group by convention if not by charter focuses on
SunOS 4.1.4 (Solaris 1.1.2) and previous while
comp.unix.solaris focuses on Solaris 2.0 (Sun 5.0) and later.

Eh? FIrst time I have ever heard that suggested.

I've been following this newsgroup for eight or ten years now. I think
this is the first time versions as low as Solaris 1.1.2 have even been
mentioned!

[Oscar del Rio]

Post by John D Groenveld
IIRC this group by convention if not by charter focuses on
SunOS 4.1.4 (Solaris 1.1.2) and previous while
comp.unix.solaris focuses on Solaris 2.0 (Sun 5.0) and later.

"Sun system administration issues", not necessarily SunOS or Solaris

From the archives:

Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun, comp.sys.sun.admin, comp.sys.sun.apps,
comp.sys.sun.hardware, comp.sys.sun.misc, comp.sys.sun.wanted
From: ***@sphinx.sunworld.com (Dave Taylor)
Date: 2 Jan 92 23:10:40 GMT
Local: Thurs, Jan 2 1992 7:10 pm
Subject: Welcome to the New Sun Newsgroup Hierarchy!

Just a reminder to you all, which you'll all become more aware of as the
newgroup messages propagate through the network: alt.sys.sun and the
late comp.sys.sun have now, finally, been supplanted by a veritable
plethora of new newsgroups, to wit:

comp.sys.sun.admin - Sun system administration issues
comp.sys.sun.announce - Sun-related announcements (moderated)
comp.sys.sun.apps - Sun application related issues
comp.sys.sun.hardware - Sun hardware issues and topics
comp.sys.sun.misc - stuff that doesn't fit elsewhere
like Sun compiler unbundling
comp.sys.sun.wanted - Sun related wanted/for sale postings

[snip]