[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

[Brian Hechinger]

That is entirely incorrect.

SunOS is the name of the operating system. It is *still* called SunOS.

Solaris refers to the bundling of SunOS plus the desktop parts. Then the 
marketing got all screwy and the OS was referred to as Solaris even 
though that is technically incorrect.

Solaris 11 is SunOS 5.11.

-brian

On 18/11/21 17:53, August Treubig wrote:
> SunOS is BSD,
> Solaris is System V.
>
>
> Aug Treubig
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:35 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 18/11/21 17:20, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>>> On 11/18/21 12:12 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>>>> They do it _today_.
>>>    Well, since the last release of SunOS (not Solaris) was in 1994, and the last release of Ultrix was in 1995..
>>
>> It's still SunOS. Solaris is a different thing. Thanks marketing twats!
>>
>>
>>>> I think you can get burnt whether it's a bunch of academics eternally discussing purity in committees or a couple of kids just picking something.
>>>    Very true.  The only way to truly protect yourself is to have the source code and revert any poor decisions that they make.  Oh, wait, we can do that!
>>
>> So I've fallen into watching old Bryan Cantrill interviews. His rants on this are FANTASTIC.
>>
>>
>> -brian
>>