Solaris[tm] 8 Operating Environment 10/01
System Specification Information

Product System Requirements
Disk space:        1 GB minimum
                   2 GB typical

NOTE: Required disk space will vary based on OS packages selected,
      desktop or server use, desired swap & temporary space,
      localizations/translations, online documentation and
      applications installed
Memory:
Desktop configurations:    Minimum 64 MB (128 MB or greater recommended)
Server configurations:     Minimum 64 MB (128 MB or greater recommended)

NOTE: Memory requirements will vary depending on the application
software being used, system configurations and the number of
clients/users.

Platform
SPARC and Intel (Minimum i486 processor) platform.

Operating Environment 
N/A

Licensing
A Solaris right-to-use license is required to run the Solaris 8
Operating Environment.  Sun computer systems come with the appropriate
Solaris license, so customers purchasing new Sun hardware are
automatically licensed to use the Solaris 8 software, including
updates.  An upgrade license is required to move from one major
release to another (for example, from Solaris 7 to Solaris 8).

Customers with non-Sun hardware must obtain a right-to-use license for
each system on which the Solaris software is installed.  If their
hardware supplier is a Sun OEM, end users will get their Solaris
license from the hardware vendor.  If a Solaris license is not
supplied, end users can get a free Solaris 8 license for systems with
a capacity of 8 CPUs or less by registering at
http://www.sun.com/solaris/binaries.

Software Category 
N/A

Relevant Standards Supported
- Year-2000 Compliance: Year-2000 compliance follows Open Group   
  guidelines
- Interface Standards: UNIX(R) platform 98 from X/Open
- EPA Energy Star Compliance: Solaris Operating Environment
  suspend/resume and power management features
- Graphics Standards:  X11, PostScript(TM), Display PostScript(TM),
  OpenGL(R), ISO-10646 and the ICC profile format standard
- Desktop Standards: CDE (Common Desktop Environment), Motif
- Connectivity Standards: ONC(TM), ONC+(TM), NFS(TM), WebNFS(TM),
  and optional NetWare IPX(TM)/SPX, SNA, SMB, AppleTalk, DECnet
  and other standards
- Internet Standards: HTTP, ftp, telnet, DNS, NTP, IMAP4, DHCP,
  SNMP, SMTP
- Object Standards: Java IDL

Compatible Sun Products, Unbundled Software 
N/A

Compatible Third-Party Applications
For the Solaris Operating Environment, there are over 11,000
applications from over 4,900 vendors.  On the SPARC platform, there
are over 8,000 applications, and on Intel, there are over 3,500
applications that run on the Solaris Operating Environment.  Existing
Solaris applications using the published Solaris Application
Programming Interfaces will continue to run unchanged on the Solaris
8 Operating Environment. For a complete listing of third-party
product that run on the Solaris Operating Environment, please see
the  Sun Solutions Catalog at http://solutions.sun.com/.