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SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems from 1982 until the mid-1990s. 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.
Valkyrie — SunOS 4.1.3 (Solaris 1.1 Rev B) Vanadium — Windows 10 version 1909; Vancouver — VC820; Vanderbilt — Red Hat Linux 4.1; Vanderpool — Intel Virtualization Technology; Vega — Arch Linux 0.2; Vega — Sun StarOffice 5.1; Venice— AMD Athlon 64 90 nm processor w/ 512 KB L2 cache; Vegas — Sun Aurora Technology 7-slot PCI ...
OpenWindows 1.0 was released in 1989 as a separately licensed addition to SunOS 4.0, replacing the older SunView (originally "SunTools") windowing system. Its core is the "xnews server", a hybrid window server that as its name implies supports both X11 and NeWS-based applications. The server can also display legacy SunView applications ...
Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers.Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace, ZFS and Time Slider.
In the late 1980s, AT&T tapped Sun to help them develop the next release of their branded UNIX, and in 1988 announced they would purchase up to a 20% stake in Sun. [83] UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4) was jointly developed by AT&T and Sun. [84] Sun used SVR4 as the foundation for Solaris 2.x, which became the successor to SunOS 4.1.x (later ...
SunView (Sun Visual/Integrated Environment for Workstations [1]: 3 ) is a discontinued user interface toolkit and windowing system from Sun Microsystems, launched in 1985, [2] and included as part of its Unix implementation, starting with SunOS Release 3.0. [1]: 4 Sun had introduced support in 1983 for a window-based environment known as the ...
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A 386 port of SunOS is the native operating system. SunOS releases 4.0, 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 support the architecture. A beta version of SunOS 4.0.3 for the Sun386i also exists but was not generally available, except possibly to the U.S. government. [citation needed] Included with SunOS are the SunView GUI and VP/ix MS-DOS emulator.