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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: SunOS on 370
Keywords: Hardware
Message-ID: <960@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 89 17:53:11 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 98, message 8 of 15

Here's what I recall.  Sun announced a deal with NAS (National Advanced
Systems), a 370-plug compatible manufacturer to port SunOS to the 370
architecture.  It was in Confuserworld and other rags.  NAS folded/was
acquired by Hitachi, and when they semi-aligned with OSF, the project
fizzled out.

A friend of mine at Sun claimed to do remote compiles across the net on
the 370 using `on`, so I think the work progressed pretty far.

Just one person's befuddled opinions,
=S