4.1.4[1] / September 1994; 29 years ago (1994-09)[2]
Platforms
Motorola 680x0, Sun386i, SPARC
Kernel type
Monolithic kernel
Default user interface
SunView, OpenWindows
License
Proprietary (binary only)
SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems. The SunOS name is usually only used to refer to versions 1.0 to 4.1.4, which were based on BSD, while versions 5.0 and later are based on UNIX System V Release 4 and are marketed under the brand name Solaris.
^Bill Calkins. "The History of Solaris" (PDF). cse.unl.edu.
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earliest was developed by Sun Microsystems for SunOS, and other operating systems like the BSDs and Linux provided their own. SunOS 4 includes what is most...
developed by Sun Microsystems. After the Sun acquisition by Oracle in 2010, it was renamed Oracle Solaris. Solaris superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993...
SGI files. It was supported on Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1, Mac OS, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Digital Unix, and IRIX.[citation needed] "Definition...
in 1989 as a separately licensed addition to SunOS 4.0,[1] replacing the older SunView (originally "SunTools") windowing system. Its core is the "xnews...
Modular operating systems such as OS-9 and most modern monolithic operating systems such as OpenVMS, Linux, BSD, SunOS, AIX, and MULTICS can dynamically...
in the form of proprietary Unix variants such as DEC Ultrix and Sun Microsystems SunOS due to its permissive licensing and familiarity to many technology...
Ultrix received System V features. AT&T and Sun Microsystems worked together to merge System V with BSD-based SunOS to produce Solaris, one of the primary...
V7 Unix. Later in 1982 Sun began providing SunOS, a customized 4.2BSD Unix, as the operating system for its workstations. SunOS included suntools, an early...
file system developed at Sun that plugged into the SunOS VFS, although it wasn't shipped as a product until SunOS 4.1. The SunOS implementation was the...
including University of California, Berkeley (BSD), Microsoft (Xenix), Sun Microsystems (SunOS/Solaris), HP/HPE (HP-UX), and IBM (AIX). In the early 1990s, AT&T...
implementation, starting with SunOS Release 3.0.: 4 Sun had introduced support in 1983 for a window-based environment known as the Sun Window System, providing...
other RPC servers are started. The port mapper service first appeared in SunOS 2.0. This shows the different programs and their versions, and which ports...
Sun386i's firmware is similar to the Sun-3's "PROM Monitor". A 386 port of SunOS is the native operating system. SunOS releases 4.0, 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 support...
data LynxOS Mac OS (System 6) MVS/System Product V3 (MVS/Enterprise Systems Architecture, MVS/ESA) OS/2 (1.1) OS/400 RISC iX SpartaDOS X SunOS 4.0 TOPS-10...
also used as a basis for several proprietary versions of UNIX, such as Sun'sSunOS, Sequent's Dynix, NeXT's NeXTSTEP, DEC's Ultrix and OSF/1 AXP (which...
number 57) available on SunOS 4.1.1 or the like. Lsof is a complete redesign of the fstat/ofiles series, based on the SunOS vnode model. Thus, it has...
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