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- From: kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd)
- Subject: Any truth to BSDI doing a port to Sparc?
- Message-ID: <kzin.721536140@cc.gatech.edu>
- Summary: Will BSDI do a BSD/Sparc?
- Keywords: BSDI, BSD, Sparc
- Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu
- Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:42:20 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- I was just curious if there was any truth to the claim that
- I've heard about BSDI doing a port of BSD to the Sparc line,
- so that BSD lovers can avoid Solaris 2? If so, when?
-
- It also occured to me today that some company might make a lot
- of money by picking up the rights to SunOS 4/Solaris 1. They
- could continue to support it, and evolve it. And if they added
- some sort of binary compatability to Solaris 2 applications,
- they could probably keep a very good customer base. From what I
- hear, a lot of people inside SunSoft think it was a mistake to
- switch to SVR4..and it seems that a lot of the customers feel
- the same way.
-
- I know that if I had access to a continued SunOS 4 product, and
- knew that one way or another, applications vendors would still
- support it (either by the OS supporting Solaris applications, or
- by the vendors supporting this continued product), I'd prolly buy
- it. Same goes for a pure BSD4.3 or 4.4 product. (though, honestly,
- I do prefer SunOS...it felt like a good mix to me..mostly BSD with
- some useful extensions)
-
- I think BSDI might find a good market in doing a version of BSD
- that supports the features of SunOS 4, with the ability to support
- Solaris 2 applications (sort of like the way BSD/386 is planned to
- support SCO applications). Such a product for the new Sparc products
- (that Sun will not ship with Solaris 1) could probably go a long way.
- John Rudd -- kzin@cc.gatech.edu ex- kzin@ucscb.ucsc.edu
- All opinions expressed here are my own, and no one elses.
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