Additionally, the older SunOS was based on BSD Unix and Solaris is System V 
based. 
On 29 Mar 2002 at 17:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Pedantic nit-picking here.
> 
> Solaris didn't come out until the early-mid 1990s.  Prior to that it 
> was known as SunOS.  With the release of Solaris, they retroactively 
> re-named SunOS to Solaris 1.x and the OS Solaris 2.x. Sun's naming 
> convention therefore, follows thusly:
> 
>       SunOS < 4.x             is known as SunOS
>       SunOS 4.x and up        is *also* known as Solaris 1.x
>       Solaris 2.x             is *also* known as SunOS 5.x
>       Solaris 2.8             is  *also* known as: SunOS 5.8
>                                                    Solaris 8

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