18. The Solaris Network Stack
Network hardware and software have been an integral part of Sun technology from the very beginning, going back to 1982 when Sun introduced the Sun-1 workstation running Sun’s earliest implementation of SunOS. The Sun-1 operating system included a built-in Ethernet port and a fully functional TCP/IP software stack. In the 24 years since the Sun-1 workstation, work has continued on network hardware and software, keeping pace with the industry and the increasing demands of network-centric applications and workloads.
Several years ago, the blueprints for a new network software architecture began to take shape, designed to address the changing dynamics of network-centric computing and to ...
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