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They had a x86 port of SunOS back in 1988 (to go with the 386I workstation). They could have sold that separately for clone PC's, but alas, history turned out d
by jabl 6y ago
They had a x86 port of SunOS back in 1988 (to go with the 386I workstation). They could have sold that separately for clone PC's, but alas, history turned out differently.
- ajross 6y agoIn fact the 386i was a nice piece of hardware at the time, priced a little under where the Sun-3 68020 machines were placed, with somewhat better performance. But they were launching SPARC at the same moment and this thing just got lost in the shuffle. It was a technically good product, but it was a marketing puzzle that just couldn't be solved.
- rbanffy 6y agoOnly now, many decades later, I realized the Sun x86 based workstations use more or less the same design language and proportions of the 386i. http://qolc.net/tihkal/acme/acme-setup-off.jpg http://qolc.net/tihkal/acme/acme-setup-off.jpg https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-017c0/images/stencil/640w/products/4428/48869/ultra27_1__58266.1578428085.jpg?c=2 https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-017c0/images/stencil/640w/pr...