Mistake in JG?
Rejistania
27-07-2006, 20:08
To put this ahead: I never read the English version, I however did read the German version Logoland. My favorite scene is the exploit using the virus-scanner. However I noted one thing when reading the book yesterday: Violet was afraid that she had problems with the SUN OS in one scene. isn't this no longer existing and Solaris (now OpenSolaris) has taken its place?
Katganistan
28-07-2006, 04:42
A possible answer, though I can't swear to it -- JG came out in 2003. Is it possible that the software was renamed in the past three years?
Rejistania
28-07-2006, 10:19
In the early 1990s, Sun replaced SunOS 4 with a version of Unix System V Release 4, jointly developed with AT&T. This was marked by changing the marketing name of the operating system to Solaris 2; however, the term "SunOS" was still used to refer to the underlying operating system itself, and Solaris is considered to be the SunOS 5 operating system plus a graphical user environment, ONC+, and networking and other components.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Operating_Environment
See, I consider it weird that the marketing name is not used here.
HotRodia
28-07-2006, 11:33
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Operating_Environment
See, I consider it weird that the marketing name is not used here.
Perhaps Max did it for irony purposes, if he wasn't using the marketing name.
>.>
<.<
Or maybe he just called it Sun rather than Solaris because that's what it was called when he was introduced to it.
The Most Glorious Hack
28-07-2006, 14:19
I believe it's a translation issue. From my version (US hardcover 1st edition/1st printing; nyah)
Violet was the only tech in the group. She'd been briefed on the server they'd gain access to, but even so, she was no Solaris expert.
Rejistania
28-07-2006, 16:30
*stabs the translator*
That's the passage in German:
Violet war die einzige Technikerin in der Gruppe. Man hatte ihr den Server erklärt, zu dem sie sich Zugang verschaffen würden, aber sie war nun einmal keine Expertin in SUN-OS.
*mails heyne*
The Most Glorious Hack
29-07-2006, 04:58
Hm. What's the OS called in Germany? Perhaps 'Solaris' doesn't translate very well.
BLACKGRUE
10-08-2006, 22:51
or perhaps the translaters are just silly...