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eWeek: Solaris on Intel: Here We Go Again

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
May 25, 2004

“Back when we built computers with stone knives and bear
skins–OK, 1993–I reviewed the first version of Solaris for Intel
for PC Magazine. I liked it. I also noticed at the time that
Solaris on Intel wasn’t the equal of Solaris on SPARC. It never did
catch up.

“It didn’t because Sun didn’t want it to catch up. And why was
that? It was because Sun was making a lot more money from its SPARC
hardware than from its software…”

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