Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:19:46 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) Cc: sln@public.jn.sd.cn, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SunOS and Solaris? Message-ID: <199611061619.KAA05115@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <9611061438.AA09505@mail.kcwc.com> from Curt Welch at "Nov 6, 96 09:38:50 am"
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In a previous message, Curt Welch said: > > My question is: What's the difference between Sun's SunOS > > and Solaris. > > customers complained that they decided they would continue > supporting SunOS and continue producing new versions of SunOS > to support new Sun hardware. But other than hardware support UltraSparcs can not run SunOS 4.1.x. The 4.1.x version is in support mode only. Solaris 2.5 is a reasonable platform to use. Yes, it is different from BSD. > (or at least I think that's how the numbers work). The "Solaris" > name actually started being used before the switch to the > System V based kernel. Not exactly, it was a retro-active rename for Marketing purposes, as I stated before. > As far as the differences between BSD and Systems V, that's > simple. System V sucks and BSD doesn't. :) I do perfer BSD, but SVR4 is light-years ahead of SVR3 and earlier. Solaris ain't bad, just some of the tools. (ps most notably and the bizarre tty management). -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030
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