ted@eslvcr.UUCP (Ted Powell) (09/05/89)
In article <1989Sep3.063533.3581@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes: > ... >Rumor says that there is someone porting SunOS to a generic '386 >platform. > >We can hope. AT&T's SVR4 (it is said) will be upwards compatible with both SVR3.2 and SunOS. The 386 is one of the platforms which will be supported by the initial release. Since AT&T now has 386 boxes from both Olivetti and Intel, I would expect that AT&T's release should run fine on generics as well. -- ted@eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca ...!ubc-cs!van-bc!eslvcr!ted (Ted Powell)
Kemp@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (09/12/89)
Ted Powell writes: > AT&T's SVR4 (it is said) will be upwards compatible with both SVR3.2 > and SunOS. This is not true. AT&T's SVR4 will combine features of SVR3, BSD 4.x, and Xenix, and SunOS is based on BSD. But, there is a significant amount of value added in SunOS that will not be in SVR4. The big stink that led to the formation of OSF was the fear that somehow Sun would get info from AT&T that would give it a lead in OS development. In fact, because of the effort required to ensure upwards compatibility for existing SunOS applications, Sun will not be among the first vendors to ship an OS compliant with SVR4. Rather than trying to get "SunOS on a 386", we should be trying to write code to the SVR4 spec. That way it will run on any machine with an SVR4 API, including 386 boxes and, eventually, Suns. Dave Kemp <Kemp@dockmaster.ncsc.mil>