Andy Holt wrote:
>
> > I did some looking and Sun just wants to sell Solaris 8
> > and 9 (incompat. w/ Sparc-2), plus I saw some list prices
> > for the sw up to $36,000. No good for me. You suggest
> > that 2.6 is still available (32 meg in this machine), but where.
> > Can I get yet one more clue?
>
> Interesting ...
>
> 2.3, 2.6, 7, and 8 (and 9) occur fairly frequently - 9 can fetch ?40-50,
> earlier versions tend to be much less expensive.
>
> Andy
Well, browsing around Sun's website, I found that you can download
Solaris 8 and 9...
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/8/index.html
Prices:
Download Solaris 9/Sparc - free
Download Solaris 9/x86 - US$20
Download Solaris 8/Both - US$20
Solaris 9 is through the Free Binary License program, and Sol 8 used to
be free; I'm not sure if it still is in the Free Binary program. Well
that's how I downloaded 8 for x86 and Sparc, and 9 for my Ultra...
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Received on Tue May 13 2003 - 08:25:01 BST