On 9/11/2019 5:57 PM, Clem Cole wrote:

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 2:54 PM Larry McVoy <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