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See also: Sun Microsystems' logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg

by Zecc 4y ago

Cockbrand 4y ago
When I went to my first computer fair as a teenager, I saw the Sun Microsystems booth and was blown away by the fantastic logo. As I had never seen a Unix machine before, I didn’t know what to do with the computers on display, though.
- noisy_boy 4y ago
  The very first Unix I was exposed to was from Sun; I remember seeing the logo on their servers and thinking that those were the most beautiful computers I had seen (which isn't much because I had hardly seen any servers before that). I still remember that one of those came with a key (forgot whether to turn it on or lock the power button panel?)
  - dylan604 4y ago
    Didn't Sun computers run Irix? Is Irix Unix?
    - detaro 4y ago
      IRIX was SGI, not Sun (and anyways yes, it's a Unix).
      - dylan604 4y ago
        Thanks for clarifying. I always thought these other named systems were Unix-like but not Unix but without going all recursive like GNU with the naming
        TickleSteve 4y ago
        The history of UNIX is complex... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix)
    - an1sotropy 4y ago
      Suns ran Solaris, of course.
      - jjtheblunt 4y ago
        SunOS was BSD-ish originally, then around 1994 they shifted to a more SVR4 variant and rebranded to Solaris. I think Solaris 2.x was SVR4 and Solaris 1.x was BSD retronaming of what was SunOS named earlier. It's been a while so I may not have the numbers quite right. Anyway, there was some overlap in nomenclature, so a version bump of the SunOS naming (and Solaris numbering) implied a shift from BSD-ish to SVR4-ish, as I recall. (And I worked for Sun for a while after that, and used Suns a ton around the shift)
        NikkiA 4y ago
        "SunOS is the kernel, Solaris is the distribution as a whole" was how I was always told it went. Solaris 1.x used a SunOS 4.x kernel, Solaris 2.x and upwards used SunOS 5.x. Version synchronicity was achieved by jumping from Solaris 2.6/SunOS 5.6 to Solaris 7.x/SunOS 5.7 in 1998 when UltraSPARC support was introduced. Of course Solaris 11.x/SunOS 5.11 was the last version.
danparsonson 4y ago
Gosh I've seen that so many times before and yet never really looked at it until now.

See also: Sun Microsystems' logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg

by Zecc 4y ago

See also: Sun Microsystems' logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg

Cockbrand 4y ago

When I went to my first computer fair as a teenager, I saw the Sun Microsystems booth and was blown away by the fantastic logo. As I had never seen a Unix machine before, I didn’t know what to do with the computers on display, though.

noisy_boy 4y ago
The very first Unix I was exposed to was from Sun; I remember seeing the logo on their servers and thinking that those were the most beautiful computers I had seen (which isn't much because I had hardly seen any servers before that). I still remember that one of those came with a key (forgot whether to turn it on or lock the power button panel?)
- dylan604 4y ago
  Didn't Sun computers run Irix? Is Irix Unix?
  - detaro 4y ago
    IRIX was SGI, not Sun (and anyways yes, it's a Unix).
    - dylan604 4y ago
      Thanks for clarifying. I always thought these other named systems were Unix-like but not Unix but without going all recursive like GNU with the naming
      - TickleSteve 4y ago
        The history of UNIX is complex... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix)
  - an1sotropy 4y ago
    Suns ran Solaris, of course.
    - jjtheblunt 4y ago
      SunOS was BSD-ish originally, then around 1994 they shifted to a more SVR4 variant and rebranded to Solaris. I think Solaris 2.x was SVR4 and Solaris 1.x was BSD retronaming of what was SunOS named earlier. It's been a while so I may not have the numbers quite right. Anyway, there was some overlap in nomenclature, so a version bump of the SunOS naming (and Solaris numbering) implied a shift from BSD-ish to SVR4-ish, as I recall. (And I worked for Sun for a while after that, and used Suns a ton around the shift)
      - NikkiA 4y ago
        "SunOS is the kernel, Solaris is the distribution as a whole" was how I was always told it went. Solaris 1.x used a SunOS 4.x kernel, Solaris 2.x and upwards used SunOS 5.x. Version synchronicity was achieved by jumping from Solaris 2.6/SunOS 5.6 to Solaris 7.x/SunOS 5.7 in 1998 when UltraSPARC support was introduced. Of course Solaris 11.x/SunOS 5.11 was the last version.

danparsonson 4y ago

Gosh I've seen that so many times before and yet never really looked at it until now.