> On Aug 30, 2017, at 7:30 PM, jim stephens via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > IIRC Jobs killed the effort. Been a long time ago to recall. I don't think > it died before he was involved. > > We had the x86 Solaris, and the office was there at least thru Solaris 2.7 > days. I also know the kernel lint had been done by 2.3 time at least, FWIW, > which was pretty impressive. Made you up your game for kernel mode modules. > My unit had modules to run tests on all available cores and on some > programmable block of memory to certify that the systems we were running on > actually activated the cores and they were available to the system.
I don't think Sun was really interested in pushing the OS on anything other than Sparc. I remember hitting the Sun booth at Interop (IIRC) in 1993 and pushing them hard for licensing and pricing for the then new 386 release. I was looking for a campus-wide license (300+ 386 workstations) for a new university I was helping spin up. Over the course of the conference (several days) I hit up at least four sales critters at the booth trying to get some hard info on licensing and pricing. Not one of them gave a sweet flying fsck. So I dumped a couple of $million into SGI Indy workstations and Challenge servers, instead. --lyndon
