> On Aug 30, 2017, at 7:07 PM, jim stephens via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > > On 8/30/2017 6:35 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >> I was looking up some data, and as a result was flipping through a copy of >> Computerworld from ’93. In doing so, I was marveling at the amount of >> Diversity we had in the Computer World at the time, but that’s not the point. >> >> The point is that I found a advertisement for the PPC 601 chip. In it they >> were advertising it running the Macintosh OS, OS/2, AIX, and interestingly >> Sun Solaris. I was aware of the first three, but I don’t ever remember any >> mention of Solaris running on PPC. Did that ever get off the ground? >> >> Zane > I worked for Sun in the early 90's for the former Interactive Unix group. > They were still based here in Los Angeles in the round building over looking > the 405 just south of the 90. At the time there just a coupe of Summa Corp > buildings on the last remaining Howard Hughes Summa corp asset there off the > 405. Now the Hughes Center shopping center long since sold off to developers. > > They were the group inside Sun and did the port from the Solaris 2.4 source > to PPC open platforms. The effort I think was underwritten by IBM, but I > might be wrong. The entire effort was supported for maybe a year thru just > shy of the 2.5. I don't know if it was ever released outside the building, > much less any public release. > > This I think was when the Apple effort was underway, I think under Jobs to > allow the Mac system migrate to such hardware. > > IIRC, the whole thing died more or less when Jobs pulled the plug on that, > and screwed everyone over. Very sad, as the open boot (Don't recall all the > details) was pretty nice, and I'd have bought into it had such options been > available. > > I did some testing on that platform in a sealed room of some tools I had > developed for the x86 testing. The marketing department requested that my > tool kit be made available to certify platforms for Solaris HCL listing. > None ever happened however. > > Had no use for Jobs before, still no use for him to now. > > Thanks > jim
Steve Jobs would have been at NeXT at that time, he didn’t come back to Apple until ’97. Nearly 25 years later, my memory is pretty vague, however, around ’93 at the FOSE trade show in Washington DC, IBM had a system running both OS/2 and AIX. I want to say it was PPC, but it may have been x86. Zane
