Mini Tour: Sun Solaris 8 (SPARC)

Solaris 8 (SPARC) running on an emulated Sun Sparcstation 5 under Qemu. At the time of writing Solaris is still current with the latest version available being 11.4. Solaris is noted for being heavily targeted at SPARC based RISC processors, not only on Sun's own machines but historically also machines available from Fujitsu, Tatung and others. Solaris was also made available for x86 processors and for a brief period, PowerPC processors although it gained virtually no market share in that area. Solaris was the successor to SunOS and was rebranded when Sun moved from BSD based UNIX to System V. For a brief period of time, Solaris was made open source before being purchased by Oracle and subsequently closed again. For much of it's lifetime, Solaris had a significant proportion of the UNIX market and was particularly common in Enterprises and Universities. The video shows the contemporary UNIX desktop of the time called CDE (Common Desktop Environment) which became a standard amongst UNIX vendors. Also shown is the legacy Sun desktop called OpenLook / OpenWindows.



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