[Sunhelp] SUN OS 5.6 and Solaris 2.6

[manginom at oclc.org]

On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:53:32PM -0600, sjha at omnipoint.com wrote:
> I understand SunOS is the older version of Unix by SUN Inc. Solaris is not
> much different from  SunOS. BuT they are keeping SunOS upgraded with Solaris
> to keep earlier version running. 
> I also think SunOS is suited for Sun Hardware system.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: He Gang-W1268C [mailto:Gang_He-W1268C at email.mot.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 12:30 PM
> To: sunhelp at ohno.mrbill.net
> Subject: [Sunhelp] SUN OS 5.6 and Solaris 2.6
> 
The earlier person is right, SunOS is the operating system. Solaris is SunOS + openwindows. 
Solaris 2.6 uses SunOS 5.6 (read your boot messages)

Solaris 1.1.3 is SunOS 4.1.3

> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I was asked by one of our users the difference between SUN OS 5.6 and
> Solaris 2.6.  I thought they are the same. But why SUN name them
> differently?
> 
> Any advice?  Thanks
> 
> 
> Gang He
> (732)743-8878
> w1268c at email.mot.com
> 
> 
> 
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