Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ncar!husc6!spdcc!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Sony NEWS, was DECstation 3100 info. Summary: no, it's not Sun compatible Message-ID: <3186@ima.ima.isc.com> Date: 17 Jan 89 14:41:50 GMT References: <979@isieng.UUCP> <85330@sun.uucp> <849@auspex.UUCP> Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) Followup-To: comp.misc Organization: Segue Software, Inc. Lines: 19 In article vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: >[Harris] ># SunOS runs on Sony hardware? That's news to me.... > >Have you heard of the Sony NEWS workstation? Confusing name, I know, but it >sounds like a neat box. Dual 68020's, one for I/O. Guess who did their OS? Sony did. I looked at one a few months ago. The operating system is derived from 4.3bsd with X windows, NFS, and all the usual acronyms, but they specifically told me that it does not run Sun binaries. Evidently there's some difference in the memory mapping. It's a reasonable machine and quite popular in Japan (some of the man pages were in Japanese which looked pretty good on the screen.) They sell only through VARs in the U.S. -- John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869 { bbn | spdcc | decvax | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.something You're never too old to have a happy childhood.