tim@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Tim Wood) (08/23/89)
Does anyone know whether SunOS can be licenced for use on clone (i.e.
non-Sun, non-PS/2) 386 hardware? If so, have any of you done it and how
did it turn out?
I really like SunOS functionality & robustness. I want to avoid SysV, and
especially don't want to deal with the many grungy problems people have
reported in unix.i386 about Vendor A's UNIX + Vendor B's CPU + Vendor C's
devices NOT WORKING jointly or severally. However, Sun386i's continue to
be priced well above clone hardware + SCO SysV (for example). Is this
the price of a single-vendor supported solution? Thanks, -Tim
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Voluntary disclaimer: This message is solely my personal opinion.
It is not a representation of Sybase, Inc. OK.meo@gatech.edu (Miles O'Neal) (09/21/89)
In article <1212@brazos.Rice.edu> mtxinu!binky.sybase.com!tim@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Tim Wood) writes: |X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 108, message 9 of 21 | |Does anyone know whether SunOS can be licenced for use on clone (i.e. |non-Sun, non-PS/2) 386 hardware? If so, have any of you done it and how |did it turn out? It's not a drop-in for standard PC hardware. Sun has licensed SunOS to other hardware vendors (such as Solbourne), to use on their own systems, and would presumable (for the right price) license the source to you. But you could buy a lot of 386i's for what I imagine it would cost. -Miles