SunOS on 386 (was: Re: Workstation pricing, Sun vs. ISA)

Ted Powell ted at eslvcr.UUCP
Tue Sep 5 03:14:50 AEST 1989


In article <1989Sep3.063533.3581 at twwells.com> bill at twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
> ...
>Rumor says that there is someone porting SunOS to a generic '386
>platform.
>
>We can hope.

AT&T's SVR4 (it is said) will be upwards compatible with both SVR3.2 and
SunOS. The 386 is one of the platforms which will be supported by the
initial release. Since AT&T now has 386 boxes from both Olivetti and
Intel, I would expect that AT&T's release should run fine on generics as
well.
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