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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Brian Behlendorf <br...@hyperreal.org> on 1997/11/05 23:02:04 UTC
iexpolorer on solaris
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/97/11/05/msft_x000_1.html
Is this the first software MS has ever made for Unix? Hm. I haven't tried
it yet (working from home today) but the distribution tree is *very*
interesting - lots of shared libraries and evidence they've ported lots of
core windows systems stuff to Unix. Oh, and I love the way they call
Solaris "sunos5". :)
Brian
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Re: iexpolorer on solaris
Posted by Chuck Murcko <ch...@topsail.org>.
Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/97/11/05/msft_x000_1.html
>
> Is this the first software MS has ever made for Unix? Hm. I haven't tried
> it yet (working from home today) but the distribution tree is *very*
> interesting - lots of shared libraries and evidence they've ported lots of
> core windows systems stuff to Unix. Oh, and I love the way they call
> Solaris "sunos5". :)
>
No, they've had an AT&T source license for years. Stuff that's been in
SCO UNIX forever has an M$ copyright on it. I hear there's actually a
UNIX group in M$ somewhere.
--
chuck
Chuck Murcko
The Topsail Group, West Chester PA USA
chuck@topsail.org
Re: iexpolorer on solaris
Posted by Marc Slemko <ma...@worldgate.com>.
It works. Barely. Takes 35 megs of RAM, before it starts its memory
cache.
Seems to have trouble with some web pages; may be HTTP/1.1 issues or may
not, not sure.
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/97/11/05/msft_x000_1.html
>
> Is this the first software MS has ever made for Unix? Hm. I haven't tried
> it yet (working from home today) but the distribution tree is *very*
> interesting - lots of shared libraries and evidence they've ported lots of
> core windows systems stuff to Unix. Oh, and I love the way they call
> Solaris "sunos5". :)
>
> Brian
>
>
> --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
> "it's a big world, with lots of records to play."-sig brian@hyperreal.org
>
Re: iexpolorer on solaris
Posted by Rasmus Lerdorf <ra...@lerdorf.on.ca>.
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/97/11/05/msft_x000_1.html
>
> Is this the first software MS has ever made for Unix? Hm. I haven't tried
> it yet (working from home today) but the distribution tree is *very*
> interesting - lots of shared libraries and evidence they've ported lots of
> core windows systems stuff to Unix. Oh, and I love the way they call
> Solaris "sunos5". :)
But Solaris is sunos5. Sun calls it that too. Do a 'uname -a' on any
Solaris box.
As for being the first Unix software? If you ignore FrontPage and the
extensions, Microsoft was pretty heavily involved in SCO Xenix, and they
had a compiler as well.
I wish they hadn't stripped all their .so files though.
> libolepro32.so: ELF 32-bit MSB dynamic lib SPARC Version 1, dynamically
linked, stripped
Would have been nice to poke around in them.
-Rasmus