Re: Solaris x86, SCO, NT

["Stephen P. Casmar" <scasmar@example.com>]

No Solaris x86, but I am sending off for the SCO Unix, to play around with.

Steve Casmar


At 01:22 AM 12/17/96 +0900, C. Oda wrote:
>I just went down to Plat Home and picked up NT 4.0 J for 39,000 yen
>for someone in the office.  I also looked at Solaris x86 for
>24,800 yen, but didn't buy it.  There was dual Power PC processor
>Be Box there ripping away.  I played around with the shell.  It
>looks pretty UNIX-like under that nice GUI.  There was also
>a 433 mhz Alpha machine there and a real nice dual-processor
>Pentium Pro board from Asus there.   Pentium Pro 200 mhz
>chips were 98,000 yen each.  There was also the RedHat Sparc
>CD-ROM for 6,000 yen.  
>
>I came home and ripped open the package for the January Linux 
>Journal and read an article on Free SCO OpenServer.  This is
>amazing that SCO is giving away their product.  
>
>I'm pretty happy with Linux on Intel hardware.  Though, I
>realize that there are a lot of options available.  Free
>SCO OpenServer and Solaris x86 look interesting, but I
>wonder if I'll get bored of using a commercial operating
>system after a while.    
>
>This kind of reflects on my hobbyist interest in Linux.   In
>the January version of LJ on page 24 there was a cool article
>on making Linux bootable from EPROM.  This is a cool use of
>Linux in an embedded system with no hard disk that can withstand
>power interruptions.  
>
>Well, back to my question.  Does anyone have any experience
>with Solaris x86?  Is it worth buying to play with?
>
>Regards,
>Craig
>
>
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