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gaius on April 20, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oracle to buy Sun

IBM GS would happily sell you Solaris services, but there's no way they'd port Solaris to POWER.

hapless on April 20, 2009 [–]

Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1 were ported to IBM PReP systems in the 90s. You could order certain models of PPC workstation with AIX, Solaris, Windows NT, or OS/2 preloaded.

gaius on April 21, 2009 | [–]

Haha, I remember when you could get Windows NT on SPARC too... Not the same thing as being a real product tho'.

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