Albert Gold <bgold at ktb.net> writes:
>I know that SUN apparently makes an OS which clearly will run
>upon Pentium machines, called X86, but that system is
>NOT Solaris.
It *is* Solaris; and it is source code (not binary) compatible with
the Solaris version for Sun's own hardware.
>I know from taking these newsgroups seriously that SunOS was originally
>based upon BSD, but apparently 'Solaris' departed from this initiative
>and moved to incorporate several DEC Fortran extensions, which GCG
>relies upon. Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 are supportable GCG Operating Systems.
SunOS [1234].x where based on various versions of BSD Unix, with many
Sun and other enhancements. Later SunOS 4.x and System V release 3
were merged and SystemV release 4 was born which was then adapted again
to become Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x.
The OS itself doesn't support DEC fortran extensions, the Sun Fortran
compiler does.
>Has anybody tried running Solaris on a Pentium machine? Does it work?
Yes, it does work, but if the code is shipped in binary form only, you
need an x86 binary.
Casper
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