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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 23:36:26 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1992Nov19.130649.8419@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Nov19.142814.19110@penny.cs.fredonia.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov19.142814.19110@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) writes:
- > I was shocked to hear my Sun sales rep tell me that the new
- >Sun machines will not even run Sun OS.
-
- I assume you mean "will not even run SunOS 4.1.x", since SunOS is the only
- OS that Sun will be supplying. The new machines will run SunOS 5.0, which
- is part of Solaris 2.0.
-
- Almost every new Sun system has required some kernel changes, so they don't
- usually run old releases. For instance, I don't think the Sparcstation 2
- can run SunOS 4.0.x or earlier, and no Sparcstations can run SunOS 3.x.
- Basically, when Sun makes the changes to support a new system, they put it
- into the release of the OS that will come out when that system does, and
- then it gets carried forward to new releases. I've never seen them
- retrofit the support into old releases.
- --
- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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