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Solaris/x86 was an odd one. I played around with it a bit in 98/99 when I got it mailed out for free under a student license. Very restrictive on hardware suppo

by Nursie 6y ago

Solaris/x86 was an odd one. I played around with it a bit in 98/99 when I got it mailed out for free under a student license. Very restrictive on hardware support and IIRC it was available on and off, disappearing from view entirely at times. I knew of that, Xenix and the two SCO flavours, but the others are news to me!

nineteen999 6y ago
Yeah the Solaris/x86 releases were really inconsistent, with Sun dropping support at various times and then reinstating it later. NCR MPRAS was the oddest duck I ever had to support - fairly vanilla SVR4, but there was bits of NetBSD code cut and pasted in (eg. some of arp cache code, or at least the header files). It was used for running a Teradata data warehousing solution for a poker machine/lottery corporation I worked for. I actually managed to get gcc 2.95.2+binutils running on it and managed to compile and package up a lot of GNU utilities etc for it.