Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:32:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: chris/reman <z2172268@student.unsw.edu.au>, Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> Cc: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <19980813123222.L496@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <35D1A991.26389012@student.unsw.edu.au>; from chris/reman on Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 12:41:21AM %2B1000 References: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980812110325.19133O-100000@elect8> <35D1A991.26389012@student.unsw.edu.au>
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(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
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