History of Solaris
Solaris (UNIX based) Solaris, the UNIX-based operating system developed by SUN Microsystem, was born in 1987. AT&T and SUN Microsystem tried to combine the leading Unix versions (BSD, XENIX, and System V) into one operating system. In 1991, SUN Microsystem replaced it's existing Unix operating system (SunOS 4) with one based on SVR4, called Solaris 2. Contained with many new advances, including use of the Open Network Computing (ONC) functionality, NIS+ and OpenWindows graphical user interface, Solaris 2 was specially designed for symmetric multiprocessing. And now, for more than twenty-years, numerous versions of Solaris has been released with great innovations to adapt the changing of the computer environment, trying to anticipate where the computer world is going. Innovations that Solaris OS has made will takes pages to be described. I’ll show you some of the most important milestones: 1. 1996 – Solaris 2.5.1 – NFSv3 file system and NFS/TCP, CDE (Common Desktop Envir...