[c-nsp] sup2T software & release notes have hit

[Nick Hilliard]

On 17/07/2011 11:10, Gert Doering wrote:
> From all I was able to gather, -modular / ION is dead.  Lack of
> progress, lack of buy-in from other BUs, short-sighted management.

Yeah, -modular left me feeling rather cold.  Can't imagine why, but the
ability to restart the line printer daemon on my 6500 just didn't do it for
me :-)

> XE is what the rumors told me the Sup2T would be based upon, but IOS 
> versions like "12.2(50)SY" very much sound like IOS-trains.

Perhaps they are taking the 12.2(33) code train, compiling it up on the XE
framework and calling it 12.2(50)SY?  This is pure speculation, but there
has been so much 6500-centered development over the last number of years
that it would be fatal not to base the code on the SX code train.  On the
other hand, as XE provides a good quality development environment, why not
use that as the host operating system?  Probably easier than yet another
IOS port to another chipset.

Nick