22 Dec
1998
22 Dec
'98
6:20 a.m.
SunOS and Solaris were seperate creatures up until about Solaris 2.4 and
SunOS 5.4 when they began merging the two into one entity.
As for the numbering scheme that is definitely weird. It's advertised as
Solaris 7, yet in the code it comes up as 2.7. Guess their marketing dept.
had an afterthought about it.
david
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull) wrote:
On Dec 21, 23:04, Aaron Christopher Finney wrote:
Indeed. SunOS 4.1.x is what I was referring to. I
generally assume that
someone who mentions "SunOS" is referring to versions previous to 5.0 and
"Solaris" refers to versions 5.0 and later, although I realise that
Solaris is officially SunOS.
I wasn't sure what was meant, but what you describe is what I usually
assume as well (though SunOS != Solaris, according to Sun -- they seem to
have changed their marketing position recently, to say nothing of the
numbering scheme).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York