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To: MONACO who wrote (69285)	12/2/1998 11:12:00 PM
From: Mike Morley	Respond to of 186894

Monaco - Sun and Intel The article doesn't reflect the long history of Sun working with Intel processors. I first worked with a Sun workstation called a Sun386i in 1987 or 88. It ran a version of SunOS (UNIX). It was slow, but it worked. About 5 or 6 years ago, Sun spun off SunSoft, which had two different products: Solaris for Sparc (their RISC chip) and Solaris for x86. The Sparc version had more features and was more reliable. About two years ago, the two products were unified. One set of source code for both, with compiler directives to handle the differences. Solaris Version 7 is now out, and some companies that have developed their own versions of UNIX for Intel processors are moving to that. In general, there is this myth that UNIX does not work with Intel processors. That is hardly true. Not many years ago, the biggest install base of UNIX boxes was SCO on Intel processors. About 5 years ago, I was part of a team that had to select an SVR4 UNIX for Intel based systems. We had a choice of 4 or 5 and that was when SVR4 was a new version and not yet readily available. Linux has been around for 5 or 6 years, although most people hadn't heard of it until this year. I loaded up a smaller UNIX, Coherent, on a 386 laptop about 6 years ago because Linux had more bugs at that time. My point is that the instant experts and instant analysts don't really have the background to come to some of the conclusions they make. Intel isn't "all of a sudden" merging into the UNIX world. Developers have been working there for quite a while Mike