Solaris 7 naming...

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While there were discussions of solaris 7 really being Sunos 5.7.... just
wanted to clear some things up:

According to SMI, Solaris 7 is really an operating environment which
consists of:

SunOS 5.7 (which was preserved in 'uname' and other system calls so that
shell / app wrappers don't break as users upgrade from previous vers.)

CDE (Common Desktop Environment)

ONC (Open network computing) + RPC  protocol set for networking.

There were a lot of neat things introduced with Solaris 7, such as
multiple library support (32 vs. 64), Dynamic Reconfiguration, etc.
Check out Solaris whitepapers at sun.com

Regards,
Isaac

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