Is SunOS/386i available for clone hardware?

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From: Tim Wood
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1989 20:06

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Does anyone know whether SunOS can be licenced for use on clone (i.e.
non-Sun, non-PS/2) 386 hardware?  If so, have any of you done it and how
did it turn out?

I really like SunOS functionality & robustness. I want to avoid SysV, and
especially don't want to deal with the many grungy problems people have
reported in unix.i386 about Vendor A's UNIX + Vendor B's CPU + Vendor C's
devices NOT WORKING jointly or severally.  However, Sun386i's continue to
be priced well above clone hardware + SCO SysV (for example).   Is this
the price of a single-vendor supported solution?  Thanks, -Tim

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