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Solaris is just a new name for SunOS.<br />
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Here's a link to a table listing version numbers:<br />
<a href="http://www.cs.rit.edu/usr/local/pub/FAQ/unix" rel="ugc">http://www.cs.rit.edu/usr/local/pub/FAQ/unix</a><br />
about the 4th question down.
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Solaris is just a new name for SunOS.

Here's a link to a table listing version numbers:
http://www.cs.rit.edu/usr/local/pub/FAQ/unix [http://www.cs.rit.edu/usr/local/pub/FAQ/unix]
about the 4th question down.

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for part 2), yes. &nbsp;You need different CDs for x86 vs Sparc (they say which version they are on the CD)
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for part 2), yes.  You need different CDs for x86 vs Sparc (they say which version they are on the CD)

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1) &nbsp;SunOS was the original name Sun's operating system. &nbsp;When Sun started adding products to their operating system (i.e.: DiskSuite) they renamed the bundle of products as Solaris. &nbsp;<br />
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2) &nbsp;Solaris for SPARC contains binaries and the like that are compiled and optimised for the SPARC platform. &nbsp;Solaris for Intel contains binaries and the like that are compiled and optimised for the X86 platform. &nbsp;Neither the SPARC nor the X86 platforms are binary compatible (i.e.: you can't run SPARC binaries on X86 machines). &nbsp;The actual media invloved (i.e.: CDROM and/or DVD) are the same. &nbsp;It's just the contents that are different.<br />
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Hope this helps.<br />
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1)  SunOS was the original name Sun's operating system.  When Sun started adding products to their operating system (i.e.: DiskSuite) they renamed the bundle of products as Solaris.  

2)  Solaris for SPARC contains binaries and the like that are compiled and optimised for the SPARC platform.  Solaris for Intel contains binaries and the like that are compiled and optimised for the X86 platform.  Neither the SPARC nor the X86 platforms are binary compatible (i.e.: you can't run SPARC binaries on X86 machines).  The actual media invloved (i.e.: CDROM and/or DVD) are the same.  It's just the contents that are different.

Hope this helps.



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hi <br />
i want to thank all the experts<br />
who helped mee<br />
all the answers together gave a clear idea about the difference<br />
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sagar
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hi
i want to thank all the experts
who helped mee
all the answers together gave a clear idea about the difference

sagar

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Hi<br />
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My queries are<br />
1)What is the difference between Sun OS and Solaris .<br />
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2)Is Solaris software medium different for Intel X86 and Sparc machines<br />
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Regards<br />
<br />
Sagar
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Hi

My queries are
1)What is the difference between Sun OS and Solaris .

2)Is Solaris software medium different for Intel X86 and Sparc machines

Regards

Sagar

query regaring Sun OS and Solaris

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.