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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <16196@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:26:34 GMT
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- >Non peecee vendors using sysVr4 I know of are :
- >ICL (Sparc, delievered several years ago), members of 88'open, such as
- >Data General. Probably AT&T with the 3B2 ( I assume).
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- Yup. The 3B2 was the original "porting base" for SVR4 (so much for the
- claims that SVR4 would favor SPARC), although I think they've switched
- to PeeCees subsequently.
-
- (As such, I'd be willing to be that a 3B2 in Summit, New Jersey, running
- SVR4, supported "mmap()" before any machines in Berkeley, California,
- running BSD, did. :-))
-
- I think Pyramid's MIPS-based machines use SVR4 as well.
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