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- From: Mike Krus <krus@cs.concordia.ca>
- Subject: Re: Ingres and Solaris?
- Message-ID: <9301251125.aa10065@concour.cs.concordia.ca>
- Sender: root@nrao.edu (Operator)
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:25:17 GMT
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- In message <m0nGCwL-000QDqC@cs.sun.ac.za> you write:
- >Hi
- >>
- >> Our site is planning to migrate (is that the correct term? :-) from SunOs to
- >> Solaris 2.1.
- >> The question is - does Ingres run with Solaris? If not, when is it likely
- >> to do so?
- >>
- >
- >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. You might ask the
- NO NO NO. That will never be true! It is impossible to run on a PC a
- binary program (such as Ingres) compiled for a Sparc. Solaris is just the
- new version of SunOS. Solaris 1.0 is in fact also called SunOS 4.1.3!
- I think Ingres will run without too much problem on Solaris 1.0. But forget
- about it running as is on Solaris 2.1, which supports the two processors in the
- new SparcStation 10.
- For confirmation of all this, I suggest you read comp.unix.solaris. A list of
- most supported software is published there every month.
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- >distributors of Solaris about their compatibility with SunOS. If their
- >answer is " 100 %" then INGRES should not be a problem.
- >...
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