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[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:02:39AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:31:59AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > And was Interactive UNIX very much like SunOS?
> 
> Not really; its just the x86 UNIX that Sun peddled before 
> they had Solaris x86.

Interactive was basically a straight SVR4 port to x86.  And was really
a pain to install.  I think the install media I worked with had a
floppy or two plus tape media.

> Basically INTERACTIVE (owned by Kodak?) did a vanilla port of
> SVR4 to i386.  Sun bought INTERACTIVE, and sold "Sun INTERACTIVE
> UNIX" for a few years while they were getting Solaris x86 ready.

Yes, Kodak did own Interactive for a while.

Sun basically took over support for it and in effect bought the
customers in the hope of converting them to Solaris/x86 or SPARC
later, vs. having the customers migrate to SCO.
 
--Patrick