SunOS on 370

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Here's what I recall.  Sun announced a deal with NAS (National Advanced
Systems), a 370-plug compatible manufacturer to port SunOS to the 370
architecture.  It was in Confuserworld and other rags.  NAS folded/was
acquired by Hitachi, and when they semi-aligned with OSF, the project
fizzled out.

A friend of mine at Sun claimed to do remote compiles across the net on
the 370 using `on`, so I think the work progressed pretty far.

Just one person's befuddled opinions,
=S