SunSoft Inc will launch a cut-down version of Solaris 1.1, the BSD-based SunOS Unix on its Sparcstation Classic and LX models at PC Expo in New York this week, Unigram reports. Sun’s entry-level units have previously only been available with Solaris 2, incompatible with applications developed for older SunOS system software. SunSoft’s move seems to have been prompted by users unhappy at having to use Solaris 2, and by a group of Japanese firms ready to do the work themselves. Meanwhile, pace Sun’s assertion that it would not do business with Digital Equipment Corp, DEC Computing reports that SunSoft has a version of Solaris up on DEC’s Alpha AXP RISC in its labs running like a bomb. DEC would not confirm that it paid for it; SunSoft said release depended on market demand – if any.
