No other flavor of UNIX is more popular or has enjoyed a wider user base and cultural following than Sun Microsystems Solaris. Since it was founded in 1982, Sun Microsystems focus has been on UNIX,and it appears to have no intention of moving away from the UNIX operating system. Sun’s user base has strong loyalty to the company, as well as to the operating system. Sun’s most recent version is Solaris 8, based on System V, release 4. The Solaris operating system is available for the SPARC architecture, Sun’s own processor,and the Intel platform.
MILESTONES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLARIS
1965 Bell Laboratories joins with MIT and General Electric to develop Multics.
1970 Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie develop UNIX.
1971 The B-language version of the operating system runs on a PDP-11.
1973 UNIX is rewritten in the C language.
1974 Thompson and Ritchie publish a paper and generate enthusiasm in the academic community.Berkeley starts the BSD program.
1975 The first licensed version of BSD UNIX is released.
1979 Bill Joy introduces “Berkeley Enhancements” as BSD 4.1.
1982 AT&T first markets UNIX. Sun Microsystems is founded.
1983 Sun Microsystems introduces SunOS.
1984 About 100,000 UNIX sites exist worldwide.
1988 AT&T and Sun start work on SVR4, a unified version of UNIX.
1988 OSF and UI are formed.
1989 AT&T releases System V, release 4.
1990 OSF releases OSF/1.
1992 Sun introduces Solaris, which is based on System V, release 4. SunOS, which is based on BSDF UNIX, will be phased out.
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