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On Saturday, March 9, 1991 at 6:24:53 PM UTC-5, Guy Harris wrote:
> >SunOS 3.0 for the *VAX*?? Did this really exist?
> Yes.
> >Who used it?
> The OS group in Sun, on one machine in Sun, "sunvax", an 11/750. It
> wasn't ever made available as a product; it was mainly just a "proof of
> concept" thing. Nobody ever went past 3.0, as far as I know; when Sun
> got its 4.3BSD tape, they brought 4.3BSD up on "sunvax", to provide a
> "reference" machine with 4.3BSD on it (useful for e.g. testing that the
> 4.1 UUCP works over TCP when talking to 4.3BSD machines), and it mainly
> ran that. I don't even think "sunvax" is around any more....

VAX SunOS was used to cross-compile SunOS for sun2/sun3 into existence.

(approximately) 4.2BSD -> VAX SunOS -> xcc into sun2/3 SunOS

"approximately 4.2BSD" because SCCS ids show it was a very late 4.1cBSD,
"pre-release 4.2BSD"

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