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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 11:55:11 WST
- Reply-To: Richard Hockey <richardh@EPISUN.EPIDEM.UWA.EDU.AU>
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- From: Richard Hockey <richardh@EPISUN.EPIDEM.UWA.EDU.AU>
- Subject: Re: SAS on Sun
- Comments: To: SAS-L@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU
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- In reply to the mail from <SAS-L@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>...
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- >In article <9211191835.AA05933@zydeco.EBay.Sun.COM> Claire Castell
- ><Claire.Castell@EBAY.SUN.COM> writes:
- >
- >>Yes, Sun just announced these sexy new models - cheaper AND faster !!
- >>And yes, only Solaris 2.1 will run on these. Sun is very agressively
- >>moving to Solaris.
- >
- >Surprise then to me to be at the MWSUG92 conference where SAS was showing
- >its stuff and Sun showed a SparcStation 10 running SASv607. All the graphics
- >and fascinating colors you could ask for. But the result of showrev inquiry
- >yielded:
- >
- >SunOS v4.1.3
- >
- >So, in other words, yes 'these puppies' or whatever you want to call them,
- >can run Solaris but there is no reason for not running 4.1.3 on them. If
- >your desperate to run sas programs thru the MBUS multiple CPU processor
- >boards, yes then your stuck running Solaris. Many a feature one can take
- >advantage off even with SunOS 4.1.3 or equivalent UNIX flavor (scsci-2,
- >striping, NFS caching, etc...)
- Yes I have just looked at the specs for the SPARCserver 10 we are just thinking
- of buying and the OS is Solaris 1.1 (aka SunOS 4.1.3).
-
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