On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 4:32 AM Stefan Skoglund via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> tor 2020-01-02 klockan 11:36 -0800 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk: > > > > > > > It's really rather ludicrous, given how even the IDT Solbournes > > really only > > run OS/MP. My affection for them is largely nostalgia; as SPARC > > systems they > > are quite finicky and the later SPARCstations surpassed even the > > S4100 in > > performance. It's really the S3000 that's the gem because of that > > wacky > > plasma display. > > > > Solbourne positioned the later multi-processor MP systems against > the Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 as long as the software mix gained from > multiprocessing were they a potent method of getting more CPU > especially if your app sw was dependent on SunOS 4. > > When Solaris 2.5 came out or more properly when SunOS 5 with its > mp support became stable enough and more vendors ported their > software to SunOS 5 solbourne lost their edge against Sun. > Solbourne never had a working SunOS 5 port. We had Solaris 2.0 alpha and beta CDs in house, but never really has Solaris going. By that time, sales were too low to sustain a porting effort. IIRC, the first big round of layoffs was before Solaris 2.0 was released, though they fumbled on a bit on support contracts for a decade before dropping them all in 1999 because the y2k bugs were too big an effort to fix. Warner >
