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  • MEDIA: Solaris 2.5 On Intel

    From groenveld@groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) to comp.unix.solaris on Sat Jun 6 19:41:33 2026
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    More finds from the archaelogical dig from an office refurb,
    see David Bailey on Solaris x86: <URL:https://www.groenveld.us/~john/images/unixreview-april1996.pdf>
    | The recent acquisition of Novell's UnixWare product line by SCO has
    | redefined the role of SunSoft in the Intel market. Prior to the
    | acquisition, the Solaris Intel package ( officially called Solaris
    | 2.5, x86 Edition) was third in a three-horse race: a fair bit behind
    | UnixWare, which was being outsold 8-to-l by SCO. If you read my
    | review of Solaris 2.4 for Intel in the February 1995 installment of
    | this column (p. 79), you know that in my opinion the key reason was
    | the technical inferiority of the product. Of course, SunSoft's
    | marketing was not exactly great either.

    Ralph Barker's review of Solaris on the AST Pentium workstation
    also brought back some memories.
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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  • From YTC1@ytc1@ytc1.co.uk to comp.unix.solaris on Mon Jun 8 08:41:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.unix.solaris

    On 06/06/2026 20:41, John D Groenveld wrote:
    More finds from the archaelogical dig from an office refurb,
    see David Bailey on Solaris x86: <URL:https://www.groenveld.us/~john/images/unixreview-april1996.pdf>
    | The recent acquisition of Novell's UnixWare product line by SCO has
    | redefined the role of SunSoft in the Intel market. Prior to the
    | acquisition, the Solaris Intel package ( officially called Solaris
    | 2.5, x86 Edition) was third in a three-horse race: a fair bit behind
    | UnixWare, which was being outsold 8-to-l by SCO. If you read my
    | review of Solaris 2.4 for Intel in the February 1995 installment of
    | this column (p. 79), you know that in my opinion the key reason was
    | the technical inferiority of the product. Of course, SunSoft's
    | marketing was not exactly great either.

    Ralph Barker's review of Solaris on the AST Pentium workstation
    also brought back some memories.
    John
    groenveld@acm.org

    We/they finally got it right with the release of S10.
    It was just wayyy to late by then :-(
    --
    Bruce Porter
    "The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly" http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
    There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/
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