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Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS...

by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago

pjmlp 9y ago
Sun used to sell Toshiba laptops with Solaris x86 pre-installed.
- justincormack 9y ago
  And Sparc laptops too
  - DonHopkins 9y ago
    SPARCstation SLC: the "Silly Little Computer", with the computer built into the monitor cabinet. http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/Sun4c/SYSTEM_Sun4c_SLC.html http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/Sun4c/SYS... And the bizarre quazi-portable-but-definitely-not-laptop SPARCstation Voyager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2CprTGEIS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2CprTGEIS8 http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SPARC-HOWTO-5.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SPARC-HOWTO-5.html http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdPartyHardware/NeXTSTEPonNonNeXTComputers/SunHardwareForNeXTStep/SPARCstationVoyager/SPARCstationVoyager.html http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdP... http://www.ebay.com/itm/WORKING-Rare-SUN-Voyager-SPARCstation-Model-146-/131537725894 http://www.ebay.com/itm/WORKING-Rare-SUN-Voyager-SPARCstatio... http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/SSVygr/4mSYSTEM_Sstation_Voyager.html http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/SSVygr/4m...
  - spilk 9y ago
    The SPARCbooks (and the SPARCstation Voyager) were all made by Tadpole
- vram22 9y ago
  Sun also bought Cobalt Networks (for $2 billion), the company behind the Cobalt Qube, soon after their successful IPO. The Qube was a cool Unix server appliance, targeted at ISPs, etc. [1] I worked for a short while at a startup that used one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Networks [1] Sun's buy of Cobalt had bad timing, since the dot-com bust happened soon after.
ori_b 9y ago
> Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS... I'm imagining, and as things stand, my imagination is hinting at crappy battery life due to lack of tuning. But if you want to try, Solaris was forked long ago -- Illumos is out there.

Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS...

pjmlp 9y ago

Sun used to sell Toshiba laptops with Solaris x86 pre-installed.

justincormack 9y ago
And Sparc laptops too
- DonHopkins 9y ago
  SPARCstation SLC: the "Silly Little Computer", with the computer built into the monitor cabinet. http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/Sun4c/SYSTEM_Sun4c_SLC.html http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/Sun4c/SYS... And the bizarre quazi-portable-but-definitely-not-laptop SPARCstation Voyager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2CprTGEIS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2CprTGEIS8 http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SPARC-HOWTO-5.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SPARC-HOWTO-5.html http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdPartyHardware/NeXTSTEPonNonNeXTComputers/SunHardwareForNeXTStep/SPARCstationVoyager/SPARCstationVoyager.html http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdP... http://www.ebay.com/itm/WORKING-Rare-SUN-Voyager-SPARCstation-Model-146-/131537725894 http://www.ebay.com/itm/WORKING-Rare-SUN-Voyager-SPARCstatio... http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/SSVygr/4mSYSTEM_Sstation_Voyager.html http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/SSVygr/4m...
- spilk 9y ago
  The SPARCbooks (and the SPARCstation Voyager) were all made by Tadpole
vram22 9y ago
Sun also bought Cobalt Networks (for $2 billion), the company behind the Cobalt Qube, soon after their successful IPO. The Qube was a cool Unix server appliance, targeted at ISPs, etc. [1] I worked for a short while at a startup that used one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Networks [1] Sun's buy of Cobalt had bad timing, since the dot-com bust happened soon after.

ori_b 9y ago

> Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS... I'm imagining, and as things stand, my imagination is hinting at crappy battery life due to lack of tuning. But if you want to try, Solaris was forked long ago -- Illumos is out there.