SunOS/Solaris naming (was: Re: Solaris 2.4)

From: Carlos Murillo <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
Date: Fri Dec 6 07:59:01 2002

At 02:31 AM 12/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Some of you got pretty close, but most of you were way off.
>The name "Solaris" is a Sun marketing designation for the product
>combining some version of SunOS plus OpenWindows.

... but the name "Solaris" is an after-the-fact invention
for many of these releases; I don't see any mention of Solaris
in my 4.1.1 Rev. B CDs or docs. Thanks for clearing up the
version numbers mess.


>The chronology, starting somewhere in the 4.0 days:
-snip:only two interesting releases left in-
>Solaris 1.1.1 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 OpenWindows 3.0_U1 12/93
>Solaris 1.1.2 SunOS 4.1.4 OpenWindows 3_414 11/94

>I hope it clears things up.

It does, thanks. So, could anyone make ISO copies of the
SUNBIN releases of the two versions above and put them
on the web?

I did not remember 4.1.4 as being released that late, though
I know for sure that I was using it in '95 and early '96.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Fri Dec 06 2002 - 07:59:01 GMT