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[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:31:59AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> And was Interactive UNIX very much like SunOS?

Interactive was a vendor that bought a SystemV source license and tailored
it for 386 processors (there were a bunch of them around 1990). If I
remember correctly, Kodak sold systems to produce the late lamented PhotoCD
which was a SUN lunchbox and a Richo CD burner (sold under another name,
maybe Philipps and then rebadged Kodak)*

When Kodak decided to cut costs, they went to 80386 hardware with Interactive
UNIX. Eventually the whole project fizzeled and Kodak sold it to SUN.

SUN ported Interactive UNIX to SPARC hardware and called it SunOS 5. Though
SunOs 5 is a lot more like SunOS 4 than Interactive UNIX which just had
BSD interface libaries, Sockets AND Streams (2 different TCP/IP 
implementations) and a set of BSD compatible command libraries.

Geoff.


* I used to have the drive it said Kodak on it, had a made by Phillips label
on the back and ID'ed itself as a RICHO drive.

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