SunOS

SunOS
DeveloperSun Microsystems
OS familyUnix (BSD/SVR4)
Working stateHistoric; now marketed as Solaris
Source modelClosed source
Initial release1982; 42 years ago (1982)
Latest release4.1.4[1] / September 1994; 30 years ago (1994-09)[2]
PlatformsMotorola 680x0, Sun386i, SPARC
Kernel typeMonolithic kernel
Default
user interface
SunView, OpenWindows
LicenseProprietary (binary only)
Succeeded bySolaris

SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems. The SunOS name is usually only used to refer to versions 1.0 to 4.1.4, which were based on BSD, while versions 5.0 and later are based on UNIX System V Release 4 and are marketed under the brand name Solaris.

  1. ^ Bill Calkins. "The History of Solaris" (PDF). cse.unl.edu.
  2. ^ "Unix History" (PDF). levenez.com.