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Available Operating Systems for SPARC Architecture

Commercial Real time/embedded

Company OS Name Comments

www.sun.com

ChorusOS a small Real time OS [RTOS](only 10K) from Sun, with Solaris 2.x host configuration.
General - product specifications
SPARC - product specifications

www.lynx.com

LynxOS UNIX-compatabile
POSIX-conformant (IEEE 1003:1a,1b,1c)
Multi-threaded Rea-time OS for embedded Applications
UNIX BSD 4.4 standard API for Unix IPC and networking
Product specifications

www.bsdi.com

e/BSD embedded BSD based Unix
see also: Sun Microsystems related page

www.ussw.com

SuperTask SuperTask is MultiTask[RTOS] + development tools
source code included
Used for Multitasking application development
Product specifications
Support SPARC 32bit (SPARClite:MB86930,MB86940)

www.wrs.com

VXworks real time OS[RTOS], POSIX
SPARC CPU supported
Product specifications

www.ghs.com

Integrity real time OS [RTOS]
Product specifications

NOT CLEAR IF IT RUN ON SPARC

Commercial

Company OS Name Comments

www.fujitsu.co.jp

UXP/DS
unix SVR4

www.hal.com

SPARC64/OS
unix SVR4 based on Solaris 2.4

www.icl.com

UNIX unix SVR4

www.amdahl.com

A+ Edition
based on Solaris

www.sun.com


SunOS 4.1.x
unix BSD+SVR4
SunOS 5.x
unix SVR4
Solaris 1.x
unix BSD+SVR4
Solaris 2.x
unix SVR4
JAVA OS
Small operating system that executes Java directly on Hardware,
run on MicroSPARC-IIep

Public domain

Company OS Name Comments

www.freebsd.org

FreeBSD a public domain unix BSD, based on Berkeley 4.4 BSD
FreeBSD Handbook

www.netbsd.org

NetBSD a public domain unix BSD, include 4.4BSD
NetBSD for 32-bit SPARC info
NetBSD for 64-bit SPARC info

www.openbsd.org

OpenBSD a public domain unix BSD, include 4.4BSD
SPARC-OpenBSD information (only 32bit)

www.mkg.sfc.keio.ac.jp

MKng Micro Kernel next generation
Ported to SPARC (C1)

www.linux.org



www.li.org



www.ultralinux.org


Linux a public domain unix SVR4


Members of SPARC International dealing with Linux
Red Hat - Linux 5.2 for SPARC
Donovan - UltraPenguin 1.2
Sun - UltraPenguin 1.1.9 and 1.2

Linux available flavors
Open Linux http://www.calderasystems.com/
Ultrapenguin Linux http://www.sun.com/
Redhat Linux http://www.redhat.com/

Other Linux flavors (not for SPARC)
Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/
Turbolinux http://www.turbolinux.com/
S.u.S.E. Linux http://www.suse.de/
Linux Developers Resources http://www.infomagic.com/

Public domain Real time (or source included)

Company OS Name Comments

www.rtems.com

RTEMS Posix with some FreeBSD library, but probably not full unix.

www.rtmx.com

RTMX/OS real time derived from OpenBSD[see OpenBSD section above] (4.4BSD)
MicroSPARC and MicroSPARC-II are supported


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