[Sunhelp] SUN OS 5.6 and Solaris 2.6

[Wes Hofmann]

Hmm, I am quite possibly wrong on this, but I understood that the
transition from SunOS to Solaris went something like this:  There was
origianlly SunOS, a full BSD UNIX operating system for SUN machines.  At
some point, AT&T bought a lot of stock from SUN, thus making them
co-owners.  At that time, AT&T was still developing UNIX System V.  They
were able to coerce SUN into moving from the BSD to the System V
implementation of UNIX.  When this change occurred the name was chaged to
Solaris.  I *belive* (not sure) that the actual solaris kernel is nothing
but an upgraded version of the SunOS kernel.  In fact, the original
BSD-style unix tools are still available on Sun boxes in the /usr/ucb
directory. :)  I could be totally wrong on this, but it's the way I
understood it.

Wes

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 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
> 
> 
> 
> 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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