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MEDIA: Solaris 2.5 On Intel

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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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MEDIA: Solaris 2.5 On Intel groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2026-06-06 19:41 +0000
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