>From Sun's web site: 1987: Big Business Sun and AT&T lay the groundwork for business computing in the next decade with an alliance to develop UNIX(R) System V Release 4. 1991: Setting New Standards Sun unveils SolarisTM 2 operating environment, specially tuned for symetric multiprocessing.
On 29 Mar 2002 at 17:37, John Abreau wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Pedantic nit-picking here. > > > > Solaris didn't come out until the early-mid 1990s. Prior to that it > > was known as SunOS. With the release of Solaris, they retroactively > > re-named SunOS to Solaris 1.x and the OS Solaris 2.x. Sun's naming > > convention therefore, follows thusly: > > I helped install an early version of Solaris at UMass/Boston, back when > it was brand new. We had a long-running community rant about how > "broken" it was -- where "broken" in that context really meant non-BSD. > Ah, the innocent, carefree days of youth... :-). > > In any case, I left the school around 1987. > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 > > > -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
