On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 03:23, Martin Baehr wrote: > because SunOS already existed as a complete OS distribution > before solaris. Correct (things are about to get more confusing :) ) > SunOS has been renamed to solaris. Correct (wait for it) > and the original name is still used internally. [Correction: s/is still/was/]
And then, as of last year, Sun resurrected the SunOS name so they could compete in a version-number war with IBM and HP. In the process they redefined what Solaris and SunOS meant (Solaris == Distro', SunOS == kernel). Silly Sun :-P -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
