[Sunhelp] SUN OS 5.6 and Solaris 2.6

Steve Mynott steve at tightrope.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 21 16:46:18 CDT 1999


On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 05:35:33PM -0400, manginom at oclc.org wrote:

> 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

Whatever Sun may say today

SunOS is SunOS 4

Solaris is Solaris

-- 
1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve at tightrope.demon.co.uk http://www.pineal.com/
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