Michael Leone on Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:50:13 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Maybe OT - 'Supported' Unix on Intel CPUs?


Fred K Ollinger said:
>> That's a bit out of my depth. Are there any "real" Unices that run on
>> Intel CPUs, that are supported like that? I don't believe so. Most of
>> the "real" Unix vendors are on proprietary hardware, aren't they? (IBM
>> w/AIX, Sun /Solaris on their SPARC machines, HP similarly, etc).
>
> There is a i386 port of Solaris. Version 9 has just come out. Sun talked
> about dropping support, but they brought it back by popular demand.

Did they now? I hadn't heard they brought it back (I did hear they were
going to drop it).

> Heck Sun is even going to release an i386 running their own flavor of
> linux. I think that IBM and HP have released these all ready.

.... I've heard of the HP Linux version, but no details; has IBM come out
with one? I thought they were all gung ho on SuSE, but only on their
hardware?

> Funny how many of the "Real" unices are variants of BSD. Oh, I think
> that there's a commercial version of BSD that works on the i386 as well.

Got a name or link?

> If it makes your boss feel any better I'll give him a linux support
> contract for a million dollars a year. Since I charge so much more it
> _must_ be better. :)

Get in line behind ME, pal! :-)

Thanks

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