Re: [cobaltfacts] Re: [cobalt-users] Sun Fire V100/V120

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mailing List wrote:

> There was a article in Interactive way back, before the weekly mag folded
> and turned into eweekly, that stated and was quoting some stuff about the
> Sun buyout of Cobalt. It said in the article that Sun/Cobalt was working on
> a white box version of the Cobalt OS and they didn't exactly say they would
> be releasing but that it was being pondered. Never read another thing about
> it. So the Cobalt OS must have been being looked at and maybe in R+D phase
> at some time to do this.

The Sun version of Linux which runs on the LX-50 (which was to have been
a Sun Cobalt product until a last-minute decision changed it to a Sun
product) was the outcome of that project, if I have all my facts
straight.  Sun moved a lot of Cobalt OS programmers to that project.

Jeff
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