About John Storta, Jr. Expertise I am a Sun Certified Solaris Administrator. I can answer virtually any question relating to the administration of Sun servers. I have experience installing hardware, managing user accounts, maintaining file systems, setting up backup and recovery plans, configuring Veritas NetBackup, and general troubleshooting.
Experience I have been a UNIX System Administrator for 5 years. I have implemented 5 systems as a Project Leader. I have seen a wide range of problems over the years and found solutions for all of them.
Organizations Independant Computer Consultants Association
Education/Credentials Sun Certified Solaris Administrator
Training in Oracle SQL and Veritas NetBackup
30+ university level Computer Science credits
Awards and Honors Received outstanding service award for my achievements
Recognized by VP and CEO following system implementation
Expert: John Storta, Jr. Date: 4/18/2001 Subject: abour sun os
Question Hi John, can you please help me with this questions as follow:
Who developed sun os?
When it come out?
What it purpose?
What unique about it?
How it compare to other os?
thank you very much.
P.S. can you please respond asap thanks.
Answer Here is the brief history of UNIX, with special emphasis on Sun.
Late 1960s, UNIX is developed by AT&T for use on their internal systems. It is actually an acronym for Uniplexed Computing System or UniCS. This was then shortened to UNIX.
Around 1970, UNIX was rewritten in C, which made it portable to virtually any platform. It was at this point that it's use really took off. It was mostly used at AT&T and at universities.
One university that made extensive use of it was the University of California at Berkley. It was there that the BSD flavor of UNIX was developed. BSD stands for Berkley Software Distribution.
In the late 1970s, Bill Joy started Sun Microsystems and created Sun OS, the first pure BSD version of UNIX. It actually hit the market in the early 1980s, though it didn't gain popularity until the late 80s and early 90s.
As a side note, Sun is an acronym that stands for Stanford University Network. This was where Bill Joy was working when he broke out on his own.
While Sun OS was being improved upon, AT&T came out with a new flavor of UNIX called System V. In the early 90s, Sun made the switch and Sun OS is no longer a BSD version of UNIX, but rather a System V release.
As far the purpose of Sun OS goes, it is really just another operating system. There are numerous UNIX OSs out there. HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, Digital UNIX, SCO UNIX, LINUX, ...
They all have their good points and their bad points. If something had to set Sun OS apart from the others it would be that it has been around commercially for just a little longer than the others. It has had more time to grow and get the bugs worked out.
The main advantage of a UNIX operating system over another OS such as Mac OS, or Windows is that UNIX has been around for a lot longer. It is designed for high availability not necessarily for ease of administration. That is why it isn't as common as Windows and Mac OS. In it's pure form, it is more intimidating than the other OSs out there. Notice that I didn't say it is harder to use than the others, just more intimidating.
Also remember that the people that developed Mac OS and Windows were familiar with UNIX, so there are a number of similarities in the way they work.
I have been referring to everything as Sun OS, but Sun OS really doesn't exist any more. In the mid-1990s, Sun came out with Solaris. It is basically Sun OS with an X windows interface built into it. This makes it more appealing to the average user.
At this moment, Solaris is recognized by numerous organizations as the best UNIX OS on the market. This is based on it's security features, it's ease of use, it's networking capabilities, and it's performance among other things.
I hope that answers your question. Let me know if you need any more specific information.
John Storta, Jr.
Sun Certified Solaris Administrator
Member ICCA
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