4 Jan
2020
4 Jan
'20
7:24 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 4:32 AM Stefan Skoglund via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
tor 2020-01-02 klockan 11:36 -0800 skrev Cameron
Kaiser via cctalk:
It's really rather ludicrous, given how even the IDT Solbournes
really only
run OS/MP. My affection for them is largely nostalgia; as SPARC
systems they
are quite finicky and the later SPARCstations surpassed even the
S4100 in
performance. It's really the S3000 that's the gem because of that
wacky
plasma display.
Solbourne positioned the later multi-processor MP systems against
the Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 as long as the software mix gained from
multiprocessing were they a potent method of getting more CPU
especially if your app sw was dependent on SunOS 4.
When Solaris 2.5 came out or more properly when SunOS 5 with its
mp support became stable enough and more vendors ported their
software to SunOS 5 solbourne lost their edge against Sun.
Solbourne never had a working SunOS 5 port. We had Solaris 2.0 alpha and
beta CDs in house, but never really has Solaris going. By that time, sales
were too low to sustain a porting effort. IIRC, the first big round of
layoffs was before Solaris 2.0 was released, though they fumbled on a bit
on support contracts for a decade before dropping them all in 1999 because
the y2k bugs were too big an effort to fix.
Warner