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November 20, 2005

SunOS vs Solaris

The underlying operating is, was and still will be SunOS. The package (operating system plus windowing system plus extra software) is called Solaris.

The deal was that Sun announced the coming of Solaris (SVR4) and predicted that it would come soon to replace SunOS (BSD). The problem was that the timing was unrealistic and there was no way it was going to happen in time. Enter the marketing geniuses who relabelled the existing operating systems Solaris 1 (which means "Solaris" was available on time but it was not SVR4). The real Solaris was called Solaris 2.

So what was the relationship between Solaris and SunOS?

  • SunOS (Solaris) - Date (Platforms)

  • 4.0.2 (none) - Sep. 89 (386i)

  • 4.0.3 (none) - May 89 (sun2, sun3/3x, sun4)

  • 4.0.3c (none) - June 89 (Sparc 1)

  • 4.0.3 PSR_A (none) - July 89 (Sun 4/470, 4/490)

  • 4.1 (none) - Mar. 90 (sun3, sun4)

  • 4.1e (none) - Apr. 91 (sun4e)

  • 4.1.1 (none) - Mar. 90 (sun3/3x, sun4)

  • 4.1.1B (1.0) - Feb. 91 (sun4)

  • 4.1.1.1 (1.0) - Jul. 91 (sun3/3x)

  • 4.1.1_U1 (1.0) - Nov. 91 (sun3/3x)

  • 4.1.2 (1.0.1) - Dec. 91 (sun4, sun4m)

  • 4.1.3 (1.1A) - Aug. 92 (sun4, sun4c, sun4m)

  • 4.1.3C (1.1c) - Nov. 93 (Sparc LX/Classic)

  • 4.1.3_U1 (1.1.1) - Dec. 93 (sun4, sun4c, sun4m)

  • 4.1.3_U1B (1.1.1B) - Feb. 94 (sun4, sun4c, sun4m)

  • 4.1.4 (1.1.2) - Nov. 94 (sun4, sun4c, sun4m)

  • 5.0 (2.0) - Jul. 92 (sun4c)

  • 5.1 (2.1) - Dec. 92 (sun4, sun4c, sun4m, x86)

  • 5.2 (2.2) - May 93 (sun4, sun4c, sun4m, sun4d)

  • 5.3 (2.3) - Nov. 93 (sun4, sun4c, sun4m, sun4d)

  • 5.4 (2.4) - Aug. 94 (sun4, sun4c, sun4m, sun4d, x86)

  • 5.5 (2.5) - Nov. 95 (sun4c, sun4m, sun4d, sun4u, x86)

  • 5.5.1 (2.5.1) - May 96 (sun4c, sun4m, sun4d, sun4u, x86, ppc)

  • 5.6 (2.6) - Aug. 97 (sun4c, sun4m, sun4d, sun4u, x86)

  • 5.7 (7) - Oct. 98 (sun4c, sun4m, sun4d, sun4u, x86)

  • 5.8 (8) - Feb. 2000 (sun4m, sun4d, sun4u, x86)

  • 5.9 (9) - May. 2002 (sun4m, sun4u, x86)

  • 5.10 (10) - Jan. 2005 (sun4u, x86)

Posted by Ozguru at November 20, 2005 06:00 AM

Comments

5.10 also supports sun4v (The new chipset from Sun).

BRs,
Mathias

Posted by: Mathias at February 9, 2006 07:23 PM