From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 12 20:03:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27337 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:03:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27318 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:03:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA00663; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:32:34 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA01144; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:32:22 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980813123222.L496@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:32:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: chris/reman , Nick Hibma Cc: Josef Grosch , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. References: <35D1A991.26389012@student.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <35D1A991.26389012@student.unsw.edu.au>; from chris/reman on Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 12:41:21AM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (following up in -chat) On Thursday, 13 August 1998 at 0:41:21 +1000, chris/reman wrote: > Nick Hibma wrote: > >> To be honest, x86 SOlaris has always been a bit a forgotten child in the >> Sun family. Sun likes to ship complete systems they can reliably >> support. Giving supports to PC weenies is not one of their favourite >> hobbies. > > Thats funny, because the uni. where I am at (UNSW, Sydney) the comp sci labs were > originally running (and still is) a mix of decstations and labtams running SunOS, > when they redid their workstations upstairs they bought p200's and stuck x86 > SunOS on them, weird eh. Interesting. I wonder if that felt more like SunOS 4 than FreeBSD does. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message