5 Dec
2002
5 Dec
'02
6:32 a.m.
At 07:33 PM 12/4/02 -0800, you wrote:
Right idea, wrong version numbers.
SunOS 4.1 was the last major version of SunOS. It was BSD-derived and
very comfortable to those of us who grew up on VAXen. While SunOS 4
was still a current product, Sun came out with Solaris 2.1. It's
underlying operating system number was 5.1. Solaris 2.2 came out
as the "operating environment" that included "SunOS 5.2" and so on.
After Solaris had been around for a while, Sun retroactively named
SunOS to a Solaris 1 number.
Ok, so I got all my numbers messed up. But I did remember that Sun
had played a retroactive trick on version numbers. I also remember
the Great Recompile/ReBuy that we had to go through when we
went from SunOS(BSD) to Solaris (SYSV). And all of the hard drives
suddenly became insufficient...
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org