SunOS for SPARC 2

[jim stephens]

Bill Pechter wrote:

> <snip>
> Solaris 1.x -> SunOS 4.1.something.
>
> SunOS 4.1.3 = OpenWindows = Solaris 1.1.1
> SunOS 4.1.2 = OpenWindows = Solaris 1.1.2
> SunOS 5.1 = Solaris 2.1
> SunOS 5.2 = Solaris 2.2
> SunOS 5.3 = Solaris 2.3
> SunOS 5.4 = Solaris 2.4
> SunOS 5.5 = Solaris 2.5
> <trim>

At some point around 5.2 I think Sun fancied keeping the last digit  in 
line with the date,
with a major turn per year.  Then that fell out of vogue as the selling 
point they had to
grasp on to was that they were more "sable" and easier to support than 
turning the
product with new "features" as all were doing.

They pretty much threw in the towel with 2.6 with the "compile once, run 
forever"
pledge on the binaries, so you didn't have to recompile the planet each 
time they
turned Solaris.

Jim