SunOS
History

SunOS

Section Title: History
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SunOS version	Release date	Codebase	Description

Sun UNIX 0.7	1982	UniSoft UNIX v7	Bundled with 68000-based Sun-1 system. No windowing system.

SunOS 1.0	Nov 1983	4.1BSD	Support for 68010-based Sun-1 and Sun-2 systems. Introduced Sun Windowing System.

SunOS 1.1	Apr 1984

SunOS 1.2	Jan 1985

SunOS 2.0	May 1985	4.2BSD	Introduced the NFS protocol, Yellow Pages (YP) distributed network information system, Remote Procedure Call (RPC) / eXternal Data Representation (XDR) and virtual file system (VFS) layer using vnodes.

SunOS 3.0	Feb 1986	4.2BSD + System V IPC	Optional System V tape offered utilities and development libraries.

SunOS 3.2	Sep 1986	Same as 3.0, plus some 4.3BSD	First support for Sun-4 series

SunOS 3.5	Jan 1988

SunOS 4.0	Dec 1988	4.3BSD with System V IPC	New virtual memory system, dynamic linking, automounter, System V STREAMS I/O. Sun386i support.

SunOS 4.0.1	Dec 1988

SunOS 4.0.2	Sep 1989	Sun386i only

SunOS 4.0.3	May 1989

SunOS 4.0.3c	Jun 1989	SPARCstation 1 (Sun-4c) only

SunOS 4.1	Mar 1990

SunOS 4.1e	Apr 1991	Sun-4e only

SunOS 4.1.1	Mar 1990	Bundled with OpenWindows 2.0

SunOS 4.1.1B	Feb 1991

SunOS 4.1.1.1	Jul 1991

SunOS 4.1.1_U1	Nov 1991	Sun-3/3x only

SunOS 4.1.2	Dec 1991	Support for multiprocessor (SPARCserver 600MP) systems; first CD-ROM-only release.

SunOS 4.1.3	Aug 1992

SunOS 4.1.3C	Nov 1993	SPARCclassic/SPARCstation LX only

SunOS 4.1.3_U1	Dec 1993

SunOS 4.1.3_U1B	Feb 1994	Earliest release for which Y2K compliance patches were available.

SunOS 4.1.4	Nov 1994	Last release of SunOS 4

SunOS 5.x	Jun 1992	SVR4	See Solaris article.

Sentence(s)

SunOS 1 supported the Sun-2 series systems, including Sun-1 systems.

final_sentence: SunOS 1 supported the Sun-2 series systems, including Sun-1 systems.