12 Sep
2019
12 Sep
'19
4:50 a.m.
On 9/11/2019 5:57 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 2:54 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com
<mailto:lm@mcvoy.com>> wrote:
You're probably right but it wouldn't have mattered. SunOS was
very popular
and had a good VM system with a working mmap. Once it became official
AT&T source everyone would have moved to it over time.
But Sun would have to accept the economics of Intel processor sooner.
Which is funny because RoadRunner was a pretty neat machine. They had
Solaris/386 but was way too little too late. Sparc was a blind spot
I fear.
One of the reasons I went into Solaris whole-hog during the
SunOS->Solaris thing was the availability of a version that ran on
Intel. I ran an Intel SVR4.2 (Consensys) BBS in the early 90's, with
USENET/NEWS, using a SunOS IPX as a back-end file server.
Of course, a few of my customers who did CAD were using Sun
workstations, and everything moved to Solaris, so there was also that.
Once Solaris X86 came out, I jumped at the chance. I'm still
administering PeopleSoft and Oracle on Solaris 11 X86. But sadly, time
to move on.
Although, Oracle says Solaris support is continuing out until 2031, with
extended support to 2034, with Solaris Cluster 4.x following suit. But
at $1000/socket for support just for the OS, that pricing is a hard to
take when it comes to CentOS/Redhat/Oracle Linux.
ak