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" From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
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" SUN ported Interactive UNIX to SPARC hardware and called it SunOS 5. Though
" SunOs 5 is a lot more like SunOS 4 than Interactive UNIX which just had
" BSD interface libaries, Sockets AND Streams (2 different TCP/IP 
" implementations) and a set of BSD compatible command libraries.

imho they didn't start with interactive.  they were in bed with at&t
directly even in the sunos4.1 days, and at&t had a pretty big sun
stock position when solaris rolled out.  iirc dec formed osf in
response.

otoh, solaris didn't start to take off until they dumped the sV
portable kernel and wrote something sparc-tuned from scratch.  that
was about 2.4 iirc.
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