On 8/30/2017 6:35 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
I was looking up some data, and as a result was flipping through a copy of
Computerworld from ’93. In doing so, I was marveling at the amount of
Diversity we had in the Computer World at the time, but that’s not the point.
The point is that I found a advertisement for the PPC 601 chip. In it they
were advertising it running the Macintosh OS, OS/2, AIX, and interestingly Sun
Solaris. I was aware of the first three, but I don’t ever remember any mention
of Solaris running on PPC. Did that ever get off the ground?
Zane
I worked for Sun in the early 90's for the former Interactive Unix
group. They were still based here in Los Angeles in the round building
over looking the 405 just south of the 90. At the time there just a
coupe of Summa Corp buildings on the last remaining Howard Hughes Summa
corp asset there off the 405. Now the Hughes Center shopping center
long since sold off to developers.
They were the group inside Sun and did the port from the Solaris 2.4
source to PPC open platforms. The effort I think was underwritten by
IBM, but I might be wrong. The entire effort was supported for maybe a
year thru just shy of the 2.5. I don't know if it was ever released
outside the building, much less any public release.
This I think was when the Apple effort was underway, I think under Jobs
to allow the Mac system migrate to such hardware.
IIRC, the whole thing died more or less when Jobs pulled the plug on
that, and screwed everyone over. Very sad, as the open boot (Don't
recall all the details) was pretty nice, and I'd have bought into it had
such options been available.
I did some testing on that platform in a sealed room of some tools I had
developed for the x86 testing. The marketing department requested that
my tool kit be made available to certify platforms for Solaris HCL
listing. None ever happened however.
Had no use for Jobs before, still no use for him to now.
Thanks
jim
