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From: ted@eslvcr.UUCP (Ted Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: SunOS on 386 (was: Re: Workstation pricing, Sun vs. ISA)
Summary: Coming soon; AT&T SVR4
Keywords: SunOS SVR4
Message-ID: <183@eslvcr.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 89 17:14:50 GMT
References: <1989Sep3.063533.3581@twwells.com>
Reply-To: ted@eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca (Ted Powell)
Organization: Entropy Limited, Vancouver, BC
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In article <1989Sep3.063533.3581@twwells.com> bill@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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ted@eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca   ...!ubc-cs!van-bc!eslvcr!ted    (Ted Powell)