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From: stiatl!meo@gatech.edu (Miles O'Neal)
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Subject: Re: Is SunOS/386i available for clone hardware?
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Date: 20 Sep 89 17:22:01 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 132, message 2 of 9

In article <1212@brazos.Rice.edu> mtxinu!binky.sybase.com!tim@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Tim Wood) writes:
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|Does anyone know whether SunOS can be licenced for use on clone (i.e.
|non-Sun, non-PS/2) 386 hardware?  If so, have any of you done it and how
|did it turn out?

It's not a drop-in for standard PC hardware. Sun has licensed SunOS to
other hardware vendors (such as Solbourne), to use on their own systems,
and would presumable (for the right price) license the source to you.  But
you could buy a lot of 386i's for what I imagine it would cost.

-Miles