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- From: dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
- Message-ID: <DLA.92Dec20103747@se05.wg2.waii.com>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 16:38:43 GMT
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- In-reply-to: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu's message of 20 Dec 92 06:34:53 GMT
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- >>>>> On 20 Dec 92 06:34:53 GMT, ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) said:
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- Ajay> epc1@quads.uchicago.edu (Merlin) writes:
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- >Now, Sun is abandoning SunOS!!! The question IS NOT why don't vendors
- >port their apps but WHY can't I run my old apps on new, faster hardware?
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- Ajay> To be fair, Solaris 2 does include a backwards compatibility mode
- Ajay> which takes care of a lot of applications software.
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- Ajay> Things like device drivers won't work for sure.
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- Its still SUNOS ..... SUNOS 5.0 .... Solaris 2.X is a name for a group
- of items, SUNOS 5.0, OpenWindows 3.X, DeskSet, etc ....
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- The main thing is its SUNOS 5.0 ... its stil SUNOS ... but its new
- and improved.
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