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- From: stevens@scubed.com (Jeff Stevens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.solaris
- Subject: Solaris incompatibilities - can this be true?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.164917.6063@scubed.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:49:17 GMT
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- Organization: S-CUBED, A Division of Maxwell Labs; San Diego CA
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- I have been hearing some disturbing rumors about
- Solaris 2.0. I would like to know if anyone can
- confirm or refute them.
-
- 1. Existing executables under Sun OS 4.1.2 will not
- run under Solaris 2.0. This means that if we upgrade
- our OS, all local applications will have to be recompiled
- and all commercial applications will be unavailable
- until Solaris specific upgrades are received from the
- vendors.
-
- 2. Solaris 2.0 does not support the Sun 4/XXX (e.g 4/110
- and 4/280) computers. This means that our network, which
- is a mixture of SPARCstations and Sun 4's all using the
- same server will have to be reconfigured as two networks
- in order to upgrade the SPARCs to Solaris.
-
- 3. Solaris 2.1 will support Sun 4/XXX, but will not support
- the FPU (Floating Point Unit/math co-processor) in these systems.
- This means that when we upgrade the complete network, we
- will lose a very substantial amount of performance on these
- computers.
-
- Can this be true? Is Sun really going to release an OS upgrade
- that will break all existing applications, break most existing
- networks, and not even support Sun hardware?
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- Jeff Stevens stevens@s3mars.scubed.com, stevens@seismo.css.gov
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