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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.ingres
- Subject: Re: Ingres and Solaris?
- Message-ID: <1979@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 10:53:19 GMT
- References: <m0nGCwL-000QDqC@cs.sun.ac.za>
- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- In article <m0nGCwL-000QDqC@cs.sun.ac.za>, cor@cs.sun.ac.za (Cor Winckler) writes:
- > > Our site is planning to migrate (is that the correct term? :-) from SunOs to
- > > Solaris 2.1.
- >
- > My understanding is that SunOS and Solaris are equivalent. Solaris is a
- > SunOs implementation to run on (amongst other things) the Intel 80386 and
- > 80486 processors. The whole idea being that you can run ANY Sun software
- > on your 486 PC, including INGRES for SunOS. ......
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- Solaris is not SunOS. It is different enough that applications running under
- SunOS must be recompiled to run under Solaris. Solaris is a major sea-change
- for Sun, its software vendors, and its users.
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- greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
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