From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 21:54:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4CD37B4F9 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:54:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAS5oTo37912; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:20:29 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:20:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Meyer Cc: Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SunOS (was: Linux vs. FreeBsd (reposted)) Message-ID: <20001128162028.L36542@echunga.lemis.com> References: <105953745@toto.iv> <14883.13084.936215.485266@guru.mired.org> <20001128153136.F36542@echunga.lemis.com> <14883.18053.897935.589671@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14883.18053.897935.589671@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 11:45:41PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 27 November 2000 at 23:45:41 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Greg Lehey types: >> On Monday, 27 November 2000 at 22:22:52 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: >>> Cliff Sarginson types: >>>> BSD became the basis for certain versions of UNIX, most notably >>>> Sunos..aka these days Solaris, and Ultrix (DEC Unix of it's day, >>>> the most awful Unix system ever let loose). >>> >>> Sun wins the award for the most confusing naming, hands down. >> >> I don't know what's so confusing about that. SunOS up to 4 was based >> on BSD. SunOS from 5 onward was based on System V. Solaris is a name >> they introduced towards the end of the life of SunOS 4 to represent >> the "complete operating system". > > That may well be the case. I recall having to install SunOS and then > Solaris for 4.x, but that may have been a local oddity. > > The real confusion is in the usage, not the naming - well, except for > Solaris 7 & 8. I don't know where the habit of using "Solaris" to > refer to Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x and "SunOS" to refer to Solaris > 1.x/SunOS 4.x, but's a confusing habit. > > Other companies that went through the BSD->SysV transition changed the > name of the OS: Ultrix turned into OSF (among other things), Well, OSF definitely wasn't System V. Quite the contrary. >>> The *windowing* system that is bundled with SunOS is called >>> Solaris. >> >> I recall it being called openview. > > Wasn't it SunView, then OpenWindows? With NeWS or SunDEW or some such > in the middle? Yes, I thought when I sent that that it was probably wrong, and I didn't want to boot my ancient Sparc2 just to check. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message