From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id dcaa90f7 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E2A1A9B9CC; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:11:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278E99491B; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:11:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 018239491B; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:11:01 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 82FD194803 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:11:01 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 368DF35E13F; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 08:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 08:11:01 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: arnold@skeeve.com Message-ID: <20190717151101.GD16562@mcvoy.com> References: <8235a090-c48a-4587-8974-23305233bc33@PU1APC01FT026.eop-APC01.prod.protection.outlook.com> <3CFC8159-08DD-4647-8CEF-FE8D196AB3C9@ccc.com> <610F6FCB-F24D-4788-953A-83E0E6456622@ccc.com> <017d16e0-3a7d-b3e7-29b8-8a454d78463f@e-bbes.com> <201907170810.x6H8AELx031974@freefriends.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201907170810.x6H8AELx031974@freefriends.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Old 386 Unix Versions, was: Re: PCC for the i386 X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 02:10:14AM -0600, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > emanuel stiebler wrote: > > > On 2019-07-11 18:50, A. P. Garcia wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM Clem cole wrote: > > > > > Did Sun have anything to do with that? I seem to recall something > > > called "Interactive Unix" for the 386, possibly marketed by Sun... > > > > "Interactive Unix" was pretty nice back than. > > Anybody remembers ESIX? Still have the document wall for that ... > > > > Cheers > > > > Sun had a '386 based system in early 90s-ish called the Road Runner. > I never saw it. It ran SunOS 4.x and I think was discontinued by the > time Solaris 2.x came along. Yep, can confirm. I was a fan but the powers that were at Sun at the time just didn't want competition for SPARC. Which was sort of silly, a 386 was nowhere near as fast as the SPARC chips of the day, that was when RISC actually made sense. But perhaps they had a crystal ball and could see that x86 was going to be as fast or faster down the road? I tend to doubt it, they really looked down on the 386.