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=== Version history === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: smaller;" ! SunOS version ! Release date ! [[Codebase]] ! Description |- |'''Sun UNIX 0.7''' |1982 |[[UniSoft]] [[Version 7 Unix|UNIX v7]]<ref name="Salus">{{cite book |title=A Quarter Century of Unix |last=Salus |first=Peter |publisher=Addison-Wesley |year=1994 |isbn=0-201-54777-5 |pages=199β200 |url=https://wiki.tuhs.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=publications:qcu.pdf}}</ref> |Bundled with [[Motorola 68000|68000]]-based [[Sun-1]] system. No windowing system. |- |'''SunOS 1.0'''<ref name="SUNOS10">{{cite book | url = http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/sun/sunos/1.0/800-1087-01_Beginners_Guide_to_the_Sun_Workstation_Nov83.pdf | title = Beginner's Guide to the Sun Workstation | date=November 1983 | publisher = Sun Microsystems | page = 2 | access-date = 2019-08-31 }}</ref> |Nov 1983 | rowspan = "4" |4.2BSD |Support for [[Motorola 68010|68010]]-based Sun-1 and [[Sun-2]] systems. Introduced Sun Window System.<ref name="sunws">{{cite book | url=http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/sun/sunos/1.0/800-1092-01_Programmers_Reference_Manual_for_the_Sun_Window_System_Nov83.pdf | author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | title=Programmer's Reference for the Sun Window System | date=November 1983 | publisher=Sun Microsystems | access-date = 2023-04-13 }}</ref> |- |'''SunOS 1.1'''<ref name="OSDP">{{cite web | url = http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/_english/bs-solaris.htm | title = Solaris Operating System (Unix) | access-date = 2006-12-14 | work = Operating System Documentation Project }}</ref><ref name="os1.1">{{cite web | url = http://bitsavers.org/bits/Sun/SunOS/700-1015-01_SunOS_1.1_1600bpi.zip | title = SunOS 1.1 tape image and label | quote = Sun Operating System Release 1.1 (derived from UNIX 4.2 bsd) | publisher = Sun Microsystems | access-date = 2019-08-31 }}</ref> |Apr 1984 | |- |'''SunOS 1.2'''<ref name="OSDP"/> |Jan 1985 | |- |'''SunOS 2.0''' |May 1985<ref name="OSDP"/> |Introduced the [[Network File System (protocol)|NFS]] protocol, [[Network Information Service|Yellow Pages (YP)]] distributed network information system, [[Remote procedure call|Remote Procedure Call (RPC)]] / [[External Data Representation|eXternal Data Representation (XDR)]] and [[virtual file system]] (VFS) layer using vnodes. Coincided with release of [[Motorola 68020|68020]]-based [[Sun-3]] hardware. |- |'''SunOS 3.0''' |Feb 1986<ref name="OSDP"/> |4.2BSD + [[System V]] IPC |Optional System V tape offered utilities and development libraries. |- |'''SunOS 3.2''' |Sep 1986<ref name="OSDP"/> | rowspan = "2" | Same as 3.0, plus some 4.3BSD |First support for [[Sun-4]] series |- |'''SunOS 3.5''' |Jan 1988 | |- |'''SunOS 4.0''' |Dec 1988 | rowspan = "17" | 4.3BSD with System V IPC | New [[virtual memory]] system, [[dynamic linking]], [[automounter]], System V [[STREAMS]] I/O. [[Sun386i]] support. |- |'''SunOS 4.0.1''' |Dec 1988 | |- |'''SunOS 4.0.2''' |Sep 1989 |Sun386i only |- |'''SunOS 4.0.3''' |May 1989 | |- |'''SunOS 4.0.3c''' |Jun 1989 |[[SPARCstation 1]] (Sun-4c) only |- |'''SunOS 4.1''' |Mar 1990 | |- |'''SunOS 4.1e''' |Apr 1991 |Sun-4e only |- |'''SunOS 4.1.1''' |Nov 1990 |Bundled with [[OpenWindows]] 2.0 |- |'''SunOS 4.1.1B''' |Feb 1991 | |- |'''SunOS 4.1.1.1''' |Jul 1991 | |- |'''SunOS 4.1.1_U1''' |Nov 1991 |Sun-3/3x only |- |'''SunOS 4.1.2''' |Dec 1991 |Support for multiprocessor (SPARCserver 600MP) systems; first CD-ROM-only release. |- |'''SunOS 4.1.3''' |Aug 1992 | |- |'''SunOS 4.1.3C''' |Nov 1993 |SPARCclassic/SPARCstation LX only |- |'''SunOS 4.1.3_U1''' |Dec 1993 | |- |'''SunOS 4.1.3_U1B''' |Feb 1994 |Earliest release for which [[Year 2000 problem|Y2K]] compliance patches were available. |- |'''SunOS 4.1.4''' |Nov 1994 |Last release of SunOS 4 |- |'''SunOS 5.''x''''' |Jun 1992 | [[SVR4]] |See [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]] article. |}
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